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Chapter Thirty-Three

After Nate was finished confessing, Rhett said, "Unfortunately for you I wasn't competing with you. I have never wanted to take any person's life and certainly not as a thrill killing. I don't think that would be that thrilling. Good day. Here is Agent O'Hara now to formally arrest you."

Scarlett said, "Stand up, Puke. You are under arrest for the senseless murder of a little boy named Bobby Frank for no other reason than to fuel your ego."

Milton said, "Agent O'Hara, we don't need your editorializing."

Scarlett continued, "You have the right to remain silent….."

Scarlett kept the rest of it by the script. She didn't want this punk to get out of prison for any reason.

Levitt, who was standing out in the hallway, said, "Amazing."

"Thanks. I' m going back to the lab."

Scarlett walked by with the suspect and said, "We both need the Rosie special tonight."

"Indeed, Agent O'Hara."

"I'm going to be late."

"I'm not waiting for you to eat."

"I would not expect you to."

Scarlett flashed Rhett a smile and he smiled back.

Scarlett didn't get to Rosie's until close to seven. She rushed in and sat down across from Rhett. She said, "I am so sorry I am so late. Lowes wouldn't give up the ship. I had to show him the video tape before he confessed all. He was a mass of tears. He isn't going to make it in prison. I spoke to Levitt about offering him a deal and then send him to a minimal security prison."

"What did Levitt say?"

Levitt looked at the kid crying his eyes out. He was crying for his lost love true enough, but we both knew that Leopard had manipulated the boy with love. He said, "I will see what I can do, but I don't think I can swing minimal security prison. I said maybe keep him out of general population."

"Sad. Do you have to go back tomorrow?"

"Yes, it is going to be long hours for the next week. Brown is going to help me though."

"And grab some of the credit."

"I am fine with sharing the credit. He had done a lot of work at the beginning. There is still a lot of work to be done. He has already helped me run done leads. Besides, it was my amazing partner who cracked the case, and everyone knows that."

"You are incredible. You really don't mind giving me all the credit."

"Not all the credit. I am part of a power couple, don't you know."

Rhett smiled and said, "So I hear. If you are going to be busy, I will run some experiments that I know will run long."

"You are marvelous. How did you get him to break so quickly?"

"I was being condescending and mocking. It was written all over my face that I had nothing but contempt for him. You couldn't see my expression, but it was pretty sanctimonious. Instead of me being impressed by him I was looking at him liked he was a cockroach I wanted to step on."

Scarlett smiled at Rhett like he hung the moon. She then looked around and said, "Where is Rosie with my food? I need to be pampered tonight."

"Ssh. She knows."

Rosie hustled out of the kitchen with a plate of food. It was a grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of tomato soup. She set it down in front of Scarlett. She said, "Sorry for the wait but I couldn't fix the sandwich until you got here."

"True. Thanks. You are the best. Nothing is worse than a cold grilled cheese. I'm sorry I was impatient with …"

"No. No. You have had a very, grueling day. You have a hard week coming up. Come by tomorrow morning and I will have a boxed lunch ready for you."

"Thank you, Rosie."

"Sure, Dear."

That night Scarlett did suck Rhett's dick. After all, he had certainly earned being pleasured in that way. Not to completion, of course. He hadn't earned that. She didn't know what he could do to earn that, maybe take a bullet for her. She would know it if he ever did do something that warranted him receiving that reward.

As Rhett was drifting off to sleep, he recalled her words about being a prude. He didn't think she was a prude. She did everything he wanted her to do. He guessed he was a prude too because he didn't want any more either.

For the next week, Rhett didn't see Scarlett. She left before he got up and came home after he went to bed. Saturday morning, he woke up and she was in bed with him. He let her sleep. About an hour later, she got up and walked into the dining area with her nightgown on. He said, "Do you want me to fix you some eggs?"

"No, I just want some cereal. We finally got everything we needed to nail those idiots."

"Who is going to defend them?"

"I don't know. Whoever is the Clarence Darrow of our day. I don't care. My part is over. I'm going to miss Rosie's boxed lunches. Every day she put a note in the box telling me what a wonderful job I was doing. Tell me about the original trial."

"With Loeb and Leopold both the defense and the prosecution placed into evidence their homosexuality. I don't think it did either party any good."

"Sad that the prosecution tried to use that against them."

"Darrow's closing argument was eight hours long. It really came down to that the boys were too young to know better, and capital punishment was retributive not a transformative justice."

"What happened to them?"

"They were both sentenced to life plus ninety-nine years. In thirty-six Loeb was murdered in prison supposedly for propositioning the wrong man. He was only thirty. I do think it is a shame that such a great mind was lost. He and Leopold did a lot of good work while they were in prison. Leopold wrote an autobiography about his life. It was published in fifty-eight. He was paroled in fifty-nine and moved to Puerto Rico. He got married and lived a productive life."

Rhett and Scarlett's condo had an open floor plan. Therefore, even though she was sitting at the dining room table she could see Rhett clearly in the living room. She stood up and while leaving her bowl and spoon on the table said, "I'm going back to bed."

When Rhett didn't immediately follow Scarlett, she hollered out, "That was an invitation."

Rhett didn't need to be asked twice. He was quickly naked as well and in bed with Scarlett. They had a lovely time that morning, that afternoon, and that evening.

In April, Rhett said to Scarlett, "I need to go to Charleston and arrange the sale of my family home."

Shocked Scarlett said, "You still own it?"

"Yes, when can you get away."

Scarlett had been surprised and her voice showed it when she said, "You want me to go with you?"

Rhett looked at her strangely and said, "Why are you surprised? I always want you with me."

"How long will we be gone?"

"A week at most. I just need to walk through the house and make sure there isn't anything there that I want to take back with me."

Two weeks later Rhett and Scarlett were in his SUV on their way to Charleston. They were going to take the Boxster but there wasn't enough room in the trunk for their luggage. As they started out, Rhett said, "I am going to have to sell that car and get a larger one now that I am no longer single."

"True."

After Rhett and Scarlett's arrival in Charleston, they got a room at the Grand Bohemian Hotel. It was an impressive room. It was an impressive hotel.

The couple had supper at the Husk. Rhett had swordfish and Scarlett had crab cakes. After they had returned to their room, they had gotten ready for bed. They were lying in the bed when he said, "We will go to the house tomorrow morning."

"Alright."

"I haven't been inside the house since the night I left to go to Knoxville."

"Tell me what happened."

"I had already received my inheritance from my grandmother. Jeffy and Madison had to turn eighteen before they could access theirs."

"Jeffy and Madison?"

"My brother and sister. Jeffy was named after my father."

"Why didn't they name you after your father?"

"I was named after my great great grandfather. I only went to West Point because my father, grandfather, my great grandfather, and my great great grandfather had attended it. Although my great great grandfather didn't graduate."

"Did you get Jeffy and Madison's share of the money also?"

"Yes. I set up a foundation to give extremely smart poor people money to go to college. The money is almost all gone now."

"Will you add more money to it?"

"No, I will dissolve the foundation."

The couple was quiet for a few minutes, then Rhett said, "After one semester at West Point, I knew, I didn't want to go back. I didn't want a career in the military. I told my father at Christmas. I had already been accepted at the University of Tennessee. I had learned all about their program in Forensic Anthropology and thought it would make a great career. Yes, my father and I had a fight about it, but it wasn't the knockdown, drag out fight the police made it out to be. I don't know who they got that information from because the fight took place in my father's office so there were no witnesses. Yes, he had threatened to disown me, but he never would have. He loved me too much for that." Here Rhett's voice cracked when he added, "I loved him."

Scarlett didn't say anything. She just put her hand on his hand that was closest to her.

Rhett continued, "I didn't leave for Knoxville for another week. We continued bickering during that week, but I believe my father knew he couldn't make me go back to West Point."

"Would he have made your brother go to West Point?"

With a grin Rhett said, "Yes. My father believed in traditions."

Rhett was silent for a few minutes then he said, "They weren't murdered until the first of February. I had been in Knoxville for over three weeks. I hadn't come home, of course. It was a six hour drive each way. I had talked to my mother several times during those three weeks. They didn't have any live in servants. Their bodies were found the next morning when the cook showed up for work. She called nine one one. It took the police fifteen minutes to show up. By then a couple of maids and the laundry woman showed up for work. I knew their names at the time, but I can't remember them now."

"Go on, Sweetheart."

Rhett was quiet for a long time. He, finally, went on. He said, "The police detective thought I was guilty from the beginning. He didn't give me any benefit of the doubt. I found out my family was dead when I was taken into custody."

"By the Charleston police?"

"No, the Knoxville police. The Charleston police had called the Knoxville police and asked them to pick me up for questioning in regard to my family's murders. The whole thing was like a horrible nightmare. They stormed my dorm room and busted down my door, which they later had to pay for. The door was unlocked. They could have just walked right in. They led me away in handcuffs and they wouldn't tell me anything. Which in the end was fortunate. I got my one phone call, and I called our family attorney, Mr. Mobbs. He fortunately was a lawyer first and a family friend second. He told me he would get a Knoxville attorney to the police station to defend me and for me to keep my mouth shut until the man got there. You know that saying – You have the right to remain silent. Mr. Bennett made sure I understood to keep my damn mouth shut. Every time they asked me a question, I looked at Mr. Bennett for permission to speak. I told them I had not left Knoxville and who I had been with Saturday night. A girl and a couple of the guys from the dorm. They had been watching an original Star Trek episode. I had made an ass of myself by mocking and ridiculing the show. That was a lucky break because the show wasn't over until ten. Therefore, that gave me a hard start. They tried to make me account for all my time from Saturday night to Monday morning which, of course, I couldn't. Yet, I was lucky because Dr. Bass, the creator of the Body Farm took a bunch of us forensic anthropologist students on a tour of the farm. It was from noon to four. There was a window there where I could have driven to Charleston, killed my family, and driven back but it was a small window. After four hours of being interrogated and me refusing to answer any questions, I was released. When I walked out of the police station, the only thing I knew was my family had been brutally murdered and the police thought I had done it. Mr. Bennett told me to keep my mouth shut."

"I'm so sorry that happened to you."

"It changed my life and not just in the obvious way."

"Oh, Baby."

"I still don't know exactly what happened. Nobody will tell me because I am still the main suspect."

"I can tell you."

"How?"

Scarlett smiled and said, "I got a copy of your case file because I told the Charleston police I had a similar crime in DC."

Rhett rolled over and said, "Part of your investigation into me."

"Yes. You can read it when we get home."

"Alright."

Rhett kissed Scarlett and she kissed him back. Soon they were having a lovely time.