I giggled. This was common knowledge in my world, but I nodded my head.
“I’m serious. I have a client now in jail for eight years and half her wealth gone because of three words. She could melt the bars and walk right out, but that would get us all killed. So she’s stuck there.”
“Sucks to be her,” I said. “Not sure how you screw that one up. The cops even tell you that anything you say can be used against you, and in my experience, they don’t care what that thing is or whether you said it before they read your rights.”
Graid nodded after a moment. He closed his eyes and exhaled slowly. Helen burst through the door, striding like she wasn’t wearing four-inch heels at all. There was a grace and strength to her that was only made more clear by her striding through the grass up to Graid’s d
