Chapter Eight
Rafferty had half-suspected Llewellyn would just pay lip service to their agreement that he consider Babbington’s guilt. But he’d been wrong. Whatever else he was, and despite the untruth he’d told Meeks, Llewellyn was a stickler for the truth. And for him to go so far as agreeing to his guilt-or-innocence deal, Llewellyn must have accepted that, at the very least, Babbington had some serious questions to answer.
And now that Llewellyn had accepted his half-arsed deal, Rafferty was duty-bound to deliver on his part of the bargain. He’d already come some way towards considering Babbington’s innocence. Even if his fellow-feeling for a man he considered arrogant, vain, and thoroughly obnoxious, was spurred by the rest of the staff ganging up to condemn him. In Rafferty’s mind,
