Caesar Dunbar postponed the hearing to the end of January. The moment Carol informed him about her extended delay, he’d begun writing a continuance call using Carol’s medical report to claim she wasn’t fit to stand as witness.
In the meantime, he tried “talking sense” into her, but she’d have none of it. She arranged a meeting with Senator Armando to explain her situation. Because she was no fool, she’d propose another agreement with him—to let him know she’d take his “assistance” under any other condition, aware he wouldn’t agree.
On the day of the meeting, Carol sat across from the senator, his executive oak desk the only thing separating them. She laid down her worries, her offer to continue their “partnership” with different conditions, making a poor job of what she’d offer back in e
