Part 13
There was a lot of noise in the pits at the speedway. Zander made his way down to Quinn's car. Joe, Danny and the boys were working on it.
"Hey, Zander! You want to help?" Danny said as he looked up and saw him.
"Yes." He grabbed a can of oil and passed it up.
"You may want to know," Danny said, grinning, pouring oil, "Sean the Shyster was here. Looking for you!"
"For me? Here?"
Joe shrugged. "We don't know why he looked here, either. We know why he wants to talk to you. Or why he said he wants to talk to you."
"He's defending little Emily from persecution," Danny explained.
"Isn't that prosecution?" Joe asked, grinning.
"Well, old Shyster made it sound like persecution," Danny said. "Anyway, Zander, he thinks you know something about where she was going."
"I really don't."
"I don't think it matters where she was going anyway," Joe said. "How can it be a defense to drunk driving that you were going any particular where?"
"Not that I can see," Danny said. "I think Shyster Sean is just pulling our chains."
"Quinn worried about them questioning her," Joe said. "Like they're going to say she only said it to protect her own position with you," he said to Zander. "She even worried she did that."
"I have this knack for trouble that won't go away," Zander said. "How am I still getting caught up in Quartermaine shenanigans? What a pain in the neck. I wish Quinn didn't get stuck in the middle of it. Bloody English."
"Damn them all," Danny grinned.
Zander watched the race with Alexis and Jerry. "Oh no, here comes my persecutor," he said.
"What does he want with you?" Alexis asked, seeing Sean making his way toward them.
"He seems to be working on Emily's case."
Sean said hello to Alexis, "I'm looking for Zander," he said.
"This is Zander," Alexis said, "Zander, this is Sean Monroe, a lawyer from Kentucky. I met him at my nephew Nicholas' wedding."
Sean sat down at the end of the bench, leaving Zander between himself and Alexis.
"So you're the one Emily was going to see when she had her accident," he said.
"I didn't know that, if it's true."
"So she had not called you?"
"No."
"No previous arrangement?"
"None."
"Do you know why she'd want to come and see you?"
"No."
"Some people at the party she was at were talking about your family, and she wanted to ask you about them. She says you never would tell her about them."
"That's true, but she was never curious until a year after she broke up with me. So why it was worth a trip I can't imagine."
"Well, you lost her over it. Do you kick yourself for not telling her?"
"She's lying to you. I lost her over her getting another guy at school. She wrote me she didn't want to see me any more with some other reason having to do with her brother AJ. She never was interested in me, or my family, or my past."
"She said she asked but you wouldn't tell her."
"Well, she went away easily. She didn't really care that much. Why she would be that interested now is hard to figure out."
"You're not so lucky in love, are you, Zander? You lose Emily and you end up with a playgirl type."
Zander laughed at Sean's description. "I don't see it that way, to my way of seeing it, you're the unlucky one in love. A graduate of Notre Dame and a lawyer and you went from a woman to a girl while I went from a girl to a woman."
"To tell you the truth, I don't think I'm ringing Emily's chimes."
"Might be the fact you aren't in jail. You don't need help. To Emily, that's boring."
"OK," Sean said, starting to become interested.
"And does her family like you?"
"Yeah! What's wrong with that?"
"Nothing, unless you want Emily to be interested in you."
"So you think she would be more interested in me if her family didn't like me."
"Yes."
"You're a straight shooter, I'll give you that! But I think she still loves you."
"If you think you're getting me back together with Emily so as to free Quinn for you, forget it."
"Would I do a thing like that?" Sean smiled his brightest smile.
"Emily's all yours. She's your problem."
"Maybe so, maybe so. She's my legal problem, anyway. Well thanks for your insights, Zander."
"What a nut," Zander said, to Alexis, by way of relief, after Sean had gone.
"Looks like he's out of your hair for now," Alexis smiled.
"For now," Zander said.