Never Cross the Mafia Don's Hidden Lover novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: Bail
I didn't ask him.
Not on the dock, with the agents taking our statements and the old man with the hose telling everyone he'd seen the whole thing.
Not in the car, where Elio held my hand so hard my knuckles cracked.
Trent wanted me to ask.
That was the best reason I had not to.
On Friday morning the lab called the prosecutor before eight.
The bullet in the jar marked BISCUIT had come out of the revolver in the dish towel.
The towel had come out of Trent's mother's kitchen.
The arraignment was at two, in a federal courtroom downtown with dark wood and bad air conditioning.
Trent came in through a side door in an orange jumpsuit.
His father sat in the front row behind him.
He wasn't in his dress uniform this time.
He was in a gray suit, and his hands were folded on his knees.
Trent's mother sat beside him in black.
She didn't look at me once.
The prosecutor read the charges in her nun's voice.
Attempted murder for hire.
Use of a firearm in a crime of violence.
Every count had my husband's name on it.
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