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Jack arrived at work the next day thanking a lord he didn’t believe in for ibuprofen. It wasn’t so much the hangover that was causing him issues, but the crick in his neck after he woke up at three o’clock in the morning, head back on the sofa, mouth wide open. Chrissie ‘didn’t want to wake him’, and had gone up to bed herself just before midnight, leaving Jack to wake up a few hours later feeling like he’d just barely won a fight against Albert Pierrepoint.
Jack knew Connor French’s solicitor would likely advise holding his counsel until it was advantageous to do otherwise. Pleading Not Guilty in court and ensuring that the Crown needed to organise an expensive and potentially lengthy trial, along with the induction of a jury, was a good way to get one’s sentence reduced when the lik
