Chapter 12: Unexpected adversary

The meeting room on the fifteenth floor of the Kemp building was as non-spectacular as they came. It could have been in any other office in any other city across the country. I glanced surreptitiously at the men and women sitting around the table, shifting on my feet and trying to be invisible.

Joss had given me the rest of the briefing in my hotel room. We were attending the meeting as representatives from Donald McCall’s legal counsel, who had been instrumental in setting up this job for Carruthers.

“We’ve worked with his attorney before, and when Donald asked if there were anything else he could do, the lawyer told him about us. He figured they had nothing to lose.”

“So do we have to spout some kind of legal talk? Because I don’t know how to do that. Not without serious preparation, anyway.”

“No, as a matter of fact, our attendance is contingent on us remaining silent. It’s the only way Donald’s grandson would allow us to be there. So we can just focus on our job.”