Page 71 of Angels Above

“No one knows that,” she argued.

“That’s right, they don’t.”

“Thanks,” she said. “I appreciate you telling me what you did. I won’t let him know anything. I’d like him to tell me, but I’m not sure he will. Right now I just want to get through the next week.”

“As horrible as this sounds, he’s more focused on that than that next week is Christmas.”

“Thank God for small favors,” she said drily.

She went to her office to get some work done and hoped that Cal reached out to her at some point.

The week before Christmas and a lot of trials and cases had been pushed off. Many were on vacation or found ways for postponements. It should be somewhat of a quiet week.

By late afternoon, Cal texted to see if she was around.

She called him back. “Hi. How are you doing?”

“Hanging in there,” he said. “I’ve got everything delivered or to be delivered tomorrow and Wednesday. Business won’t be affected.”

“I don’t think anyone is too worried about that,” she said. “How are you? Any updates?”

“Come on now,” he said. “You know as well as I do, that Brian would have told you Tyler was picked up last night.”

At least he was being honest about it. “How come you didn’t tell me?”

Cal sighed on the other end. “It’s been a long weekend. I didn’t want to bother you more. I knew you’d have a lot of questions and I wasn’t sure I’d have the answers.”

“Did you go down and talk to him?”

“I did.”

She wasn’t surprised.

“What did he say?” she asked. “You know, maybe you should have had your lawyer with you.”

He laughed. Not a funny sound either.“I asked why he did it.”

“Was it revenge for being terminated?”

“Yeah,” he said. “He claims not to remember doing it, but I don’t believe it. He said that he’d been with friends before. They were drinking and getting high. He remembers feeling angry and couldn’t pinpoint why. He left to drive home and ended up there.”

“How did he get in?” she asked.

“He had a key. I’d never given him a key and I asked how he got it. He confessed to swiping it from my grandfather and making a copy one day and returning it without anyone knowing.”

“I’m sorry, Cal. You’re not telling your grandfather that, are you?”

“No way. He’d feel worse than me right now.”

“The fact he had the key just proves his intent,” she said.

“It was pointed out. I expect my attorneys to say that too. Everything he said was recorded. You’ll get a copy of it. I just wanted to let you know.”

“So this was a professional call and not a personal one?”

“I know that tone,” he said.

“What tone is that?”

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