"I'll be your friend until you find a better one."
― Carla H. Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun
I had got the call.
I. Got. The. Call.
I was so frustrated and angry. I was more angry than frustrated. I wanted to shatter my cell phone against the nearest wall and watch the pieces fall to the floor. That was what I wanted to do. I was a little abrupt with the lap dancer at the upscale strip joint in Las Vegas, Nevada. She stumbled to the floor. I reached my hand to her to help her up but she told me to 'Fuck off'! I went straight to the airport and flew to Georgia.
"Are you fucking trying to go to prison?" I had asked Rick.
"No."
"Then why the fuck would you call me? I am a divorce attorney. You need a Criminal defense attorney."
Rick's bond was 500k. I put up the 50 grand to get my friend out. Carl was another matter. He was going to spend some time thinking about his actions but knowing Carl; he just checked something off of his mental bucket list.
"I need your help."
"Are you divorcing Lori. Wait, you already divorced her and I helped with that. Did you marry someone recently that I don't know anything about? Did you marry someone your ass met online?"
"I am not asking-"
"Buddy, that's the shit I can help you with. I am the number one attorney for men. I specialize assisting Dad's from getting the short end of the stick in a divorce proceeding. I've just listed my credentials, and you tell me that it isn't what you are seeking then why in the hell did you call?"
I knew why he called. I was giving him a fucking hard time. Plus we were talking in an area where our conversation could have ears peeled to hear every word we spoke.
Anyone that was in trouble, the kind he was in with Negan as the presiding Judge and sometimes self-appointed juror and executioner, Rick was going to need legal muscle to pull strings from behind the scenes and the gates of hell.
I could help him but I had no idea who could help the Teen arsonist in waiting. I was the one who made the phone call to Senior Grimes. Told him I had booked a flight out and the cost for Carl's bond was more than I was willing to lose.
The thing that couldn't be overlooked was that Carl killed a kid before.
