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It was a business day at the prison and the interview rooms were full. Three-piece suits sat on the left side of the counter and orange jumpsuits on the right. Public defenders huddled with their clients next to tall stacks of accordion files. For their visits, the prison guards became air-traffic controllers, lining up the inmates like jets waiting to land.
“This is a surprise,” Co
“Expect me every day.” Be
“I don’t know. Maybe the way we look?”
“You didn’t tell them?”
“No, of course not.” Co
Be
“I don’t have any friends.”
“How about on the outside?”
“Like I said.”
Be
“No, not unless somebody in your firm told them.”
“No.” Be
Co
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“You didn’t ask.”
“I shouldn’t have to. You’re supposed to tell me everything, and I decide what’s important for the case. You don’t make that decision, I do. I’m your lawyer.”
Co
“It’s not about who’s the boss.”
“The fuck it isn’t.”
Be
Co
“Everything.”
“Except who you really are.”
Be
“No, you don’t, because you don’t know who I am. I change who you are, and you don’t like that one bit.”
“About the case.” If Co
“You don’t like your cage rattled, huh? Well, deal with it.” Co
“Lyman Bullock,” Be
Co
“Where did you meet him?”
“On the street. A hot dog stand.”
“A preppie lawyer, at a hot dog stand? Try again. The truth.”
Co
“Then what?”
“We had an affair, okay? Surprised I got a man like that?”
Be
“An apartment he kept on the side. I wasn’t the first.”
“You have a key?”
“No, I met him there.”
“How many times a week?”
“In the begi
Be
“No, we played Nintendo.” Co
Be
“Yeah.”
“Why?”
Co
“I thought you were a woman in love.”
“You thought wrong.” She laughed abruptly. “You got the degree, but I got the brains.”
Be
“I lived with Della Porta but I didn’t love him. I told you I didn’t like being alone. I didn’t love Bullock either. They were just men. I cared about them, but it wasn’t like love, in love songs and all.”
Be
“A month before Anthony was murdered.”
“Did you end it or did he?”
“We both did. He was traveling all the time on business, for a big case out in Arkansas. He just stopped calling.”
“You didn’t call him?”
“No. I wasn’t that interested, and then Anthony got killed.”
Be
“No. Bullock wanted to buy a share of Star. Wanted me to fix it with Anthony. ’Course, I couldn’t exactly do that.”
“Buy a share? What do you mean?”
“Fighters need backers. Anthony was the manager and he got a group of businessmen to put up money for Star. If Star made money, they made money.”
“Could there be a co
“No way. Bullock didn’t need the coin, believe me.”
But Be
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