TOO LATE : CHAPTER 51 – 60
Chapter 56
So until Asa is convicted and put away for good, I know I’m not going to be able to protect her from all of it.
Instead, I pat the spot beside me on the bed and encourage her to come sit with me.
She does. Once she’s settled next to me and we’re both propped against the headboard, I look at Ryan. “What is it you don’t want to tell me?”
He shakes his head and leans forward, clasping his hands in front of him. “I don’t even know where to start,” he says, his eyes meeting mine. “I met with Young today.”
“And?” I ask.
“It wasn’t good,” Ryan says. “I don’t even know how to sugar coat this, so I’m just going to explain it in a way you’ll both understand.”
Sloan’s hand wraps around mine and I can already feel her shaking.
I squeeze her hand for reassurance. Ryan tends to overdramatize situations; I just wish Sloan knew that so she wouldn’t be this worried.
“Asa is claiming he shot the guy in his bedroom out of self-defense.”
Sloan scoffs. “It wasn’t self-defense!” she says. “I was there!”
Ryan nods softly. “Not in defense of himself,” Ryan says. “He claims he was defending you.
That he heard you screaming for help, and when he walked into his room, the guy was attacking you and he was holding a gvn.
He claims he had no other choice but to stop him before he klled you.”
Sloan is shaking her head. “It wasn’t…” she looks at me. “Luke, he didn’t have to kll him.”
I knew Asa was going to pull this shit. I wrap my arm around Sloan and refocus my attention on Ryan. “What does this mean exactly?” I ask. “When it goes to trial, his defense won’t stand up to Sloan’s testimony?”
Ryan blows out a quick breath. “That’s what we’re hoping,” he says. “If it goes to trial.”
“If?” Sloan says, voicing my exact thought.
Tillie speaks up this time. “The thing is…” she says. “It’s a solid case of self-defense. The guy was holding an unauthorized weapon. Sloan was screaming for help. He was attacking her.
Even with her testimony, Asa’s defense holds up. And the gun he used was a legal firearm, registered in his name.
Unlike the victim. Also, Asa is claiming to have no knowledge of who the men were who broke into the home. And the police haven’t located any of the men who fled.
Only the victim, who, so far, has no ties to Asa that we can prove.”
TOO LATE : CHAPTER 51 – 60
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