“It’s turkey bacon. You’ve got me trying to eat healthy. My arteries already thank you,” he teased.
She laughed. “That’s fine, bacon is good in all forms. You just have to have an open mind.”
He wrinkled his nose. “Nothing beats a thick piece of pork bacon.”
“Maybe, but I want you to stick around for a good long while, so turkey bacon it is. We can splurge on occasion.”
“I want to show you something,” he said, walking out of the kitchen and returning a few minutes later with a newspaper in his hand.
“You’ve already read the paper? How long was I in the shower?” she laughed.
“Meredith texted me that I would be interested in the paper,” he explained.
Katherine raised her eyebrows. “And were you?”
“Yes, and you will be too.”
She rolled her eyes. “I never read the paper. It’s too depressing.”
“Not today it isn’t.”
He slid the paper across the counter to her. Her eyes immediately fell on Tim’s face staring back at her from a front-page photo. It felt like his eyes were staring directly at her. It was a picture she knew well and had always hated. It was his headshot from the firm and she’d always found it creepy. She snatched the paper, unfolding it to read the headline.
Top Defense Attorney Disbarred for Bribing Judge
“Holy shit,” she murmured, scanning the article, reading the list of crimes Tim was going to be held accountable for. It was everything she had read in the papers and more. Tim had been a very bad boy.
“He’s facing charges—a lot of charges,” Ben summarized.
“I don’t understand,” she said, shaking her head.
“I thought maybe it was you,” he said.
“The article says an anonymous source provided them with the proof,” she read aloud.
“Are you the anonymous source? I mean, you don’t have to tell me if it was you, but if it was, I’ll never tell,” he said.
She burst into laughter. “I am not the source. I had nothing to do with this, although I’m guessing he probably thinks I did. I hope they’re keeping him locked up. I don’t want to be around if he’s out on bail.”
“I think he knows better to stay away from you. So, you didn’t do this?” he asked, his tone disbelieving.
“Not me. Some of the stuff mentioned in there I didn’t even know about.”
“He pissed someone off,” Ben said.
“Someone. The man made a living pissing people off. He was a shady lawyer and everyone in the area knew it. The only people that liked him were his equally shady clients. They paid him a lot of money to ensure they never had to pay for their crimes,” she said, the thought making her ill.
Ben turned back to the stove to finish cooking. “Maybe he screwed over the wrong person.”
“Good thing I got that settlement check last month. He’s probably going to lose everything. I know he had some offshore accounts, I wonder if they’ll find those,” she said, trying not to sound giddy.
She chastised herself a bit, knowing it was bad form to celebrate another person’s misfortune. But looking into his evil eyes staring back at her from the photo, she didn’t think anyone would be sorry to see him do time behind bars.
“He’s been disbarred, and they are opening a formal investigation into the charges. The FBI is going to be involved as well, so I have a feeling any money he tried to hide is going to be tracked down,” Ben stated.
She nodded her head. “He knew better and he chose to cheat the system. I don’t feel the least bit sorry for him. He thought he was above the law because he knew how to manipulate it. I wonder how many judges are going to lose their seats over this,” she murmured, thinking of the long reaching consequences to Ti
m’s actions.