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Excerpt: An Easy Touch
Channing’s voice grew knowing. “This goes back to your jailhouse lawyer days. You’re not only checking facts for Quinn. You’re on a save-Lisa crusade.”
“She’s like so many women I met inside,” Nora said. “No idea how she got into such big trouble. And not smart enough to save herself.”
An image flashed in her mind, the prison guard tilting the computer screen to show her Lisa’s visitor list for the past five years. Not one name on it.
“Lisa’s completely on her own,” she added. “Hurts me to see her abandoned like that. Feels so unfair. I’m starting to think of her as a potential client.”
“Ah.” Channing’s tone matched her I-get-it expression. “You don’t want Quinn to figure out that’s where you’re headed. Not with his ban on new clients.”
“I get that we risk letting down our current clients if we stretch ourselves too thin.” She jumped to her feet. “But I can’t let this go.”
Channing twisted her mouth into her worried-mom expression. “Better watch out. Lisa could be playing you. Maybe you let her see what an easy touch you are when it comes to female convicts.”
“I’m not,” Nora protested.
Channing sniffed.
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For Christian, Gretchen, and Per Ulrich Deverell Pedersen
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