Supreme Justice

“Are you going to tell me what you’re involved in?” Gi

“I really can’t. It does involve Court business, and I promised I wouldn’t tell anyone but Dana.”

“So you can tell her, but you can’t tell the woman you’re going to spend your life with?”

“It’s not like that. Dana is being paid to investigate a… a problem. This was a business conversation between a client and her employer.”

“You’re paying her?”

“I can’t answer that, and please drop this, OK? How would you feel if I asked you to reveal confidential communications between you and a client or demanded that you tell me what you and a partner discussed in a business meeting?”

Gi

“I’m worried because I love you so much, and I’d die if anything happened to you.”

Brad took her in his arms. If he had to choose between a billion dollars and hugging Gi

In his dream, Brad was on the deck of the China Sea, and the ship had been converted into a strip club. Brad was sitting at a table covered with a white tablecloth and lit by a candle, watching naked, busty women with large derrieres cavort on a raised stage. Millard Price was sitting next to him, and he was wearing a sombrero and a serape. A near-naked woman perched on Price’s lap. The judge was drunk, and he laughed as he stuffed hundred-dollar bills into her G-string. Then the woman turned toward Brad and thrust her breasts in his face.

“Do you want a private dance?” she asked, seconds before Brad shot up in bed and stared into the darkness.

“What’s wrong?” Gi

“Nothing,” he said, but the tension in his voice told her otherwise. “I’ve got to make a call.”

“It’s three in the morning,” Gi

“I know.”

Brad grabbed his cell phone and left the bedroom. Gi

“I know it’s late, Dana, but this can’t wait,” Brad whispered in the mistaken belief that Gi

“When the incident on the China Sea took place, De

Dana said something.

“OK, it gives Keith Evans something to look into, but if he can show Price set up the company, he’ll have a co

Gi

Gi

Chapter Forty-eight

At seven thirty the next morning, Gi

When she was finished, Gi

Masterson must have thought he was safe when the trial judge blocked Garrett after the government asserted the state-secrets privilege, but Sarah Woodruff was sentenced to death, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that the defendant’s right to exculpatory evidence in a death case doesn’t trump the state-secrets privilege, and the issue in the case became one of national importance. If cert wasn’t granted, the case would die. If cert was granted, the case would get national scrutiny. While Masterson was with the CIA, he had a million ways to keep the lid on it, but he was on his own now, and he had to get rid of Justice Moss because she stood in the way of the Court denying cert.

As soon as Gi

If Price had created the papers used to incorporate the company and they weren’t stored on a hard drive, there was another place they might be stored. During her first week on the job, Gi

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