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“Wait, what? What story?”

“My father Connelly Investh the eyes of his son”

“You don’t know the truth” Was there doubt in her voice?

“That’s why I was at Connelly Investree to let ood sides of Walter Connelly To tell the truth In the hope that if an indictet a fairer trial than if he’d been coued by the media

“You thought he’d just confess his guilt and leave you to get hihter sentence?”

Maybe So like that In part But there was soto preserve his reputation in the event that he doesn’t get prison time and still needs to support himself,” he said

She studied hiood idea”

Was there no end to the shocks that were hitting him that day? “You do”

Sitting back in his chair, looking like a professionally dressed waif siren, she crossed her hands in her lap and said, “While my natural inclination would be to stay silent, I think, in this case, silence would beto believe what they choose to believe, and spin whatever fodder they can find to fit their version of the truth If you put your truth out there, at least people will have a different version to believe if they choose to do so If nothing else, the ainst your father because they’ll have to refute your facts rather than juststuff up”

He liked having an attorney on staff

“There’s only one problem to all of this”

Maybe he liked having an attorney on staff

“What’s that?”

“Getting your father to agree Especially after we’ve just agreed that you’ll stay away froes”

There was that “So I’ll start the series by telling the truth that I knoithout his help I can talk about where he came from and how he built his erity, Gabi I’m certain of that”