Justice Incarnate

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Book: Justice Incarnate Read Online Free PDF
Author: Regan Black
Tags: Fiction, General, Romance, Paranormal
common."
    Her appetite gone, she pushed the plate aside and crossed her arms over her chest. "What gave me away?"
    "Nothing," Cleveland admitted. "I just knew what to look for and where to look for it. My sister didn't make it. Killed herself halfway through counseling."
    Jaden wasn't sure she could take any more victim stories right now. Or ever. Last night had been bad. The judge was escalating and she had to find a way to stop him.
    Permanently.
    "Look, Jaden, all I'm sayin' is, whatever you need–count me in."
    "This is a solo gig, Cleveland."
    "Maybe it shouldn't be." He stood and with a flippant salute, was out the door.
    Unsettled, Jaden switched on the wall-mounted video panel. She left it tuned to her favorite of the myriad 24/7 news networks and caught the tail end of the police chief's press conference.
    "We're investigating the cause of death. We suspect the officer will be cleared of any wrong doing and the criminals apprehended soon."
    She studied the image, grabbed the remote and keyed the request for a closer camera angle. The image changed, zooming in on the chief's face.
    "I'll be damned," she muttered to the air around her. The facial structure reminded her of last night's street rat, but the eyes were the wrong color.
    No, she corrected. Today they were the right color. The unique, deceptively easy-going pewter gray. The color they'd been when she'd fallen in love with him. A millennium ago.
    "So you have a lead?" a reporter called from off camera.
    "We're working from surveillance material in the evidence vehicle, the surviving officer's testimony and other resources."
    "Meaning informants?" another voice cried out.
    "Meaning other resources." The chief gave a benign smile and stepped back from the podium. He turned and walked away with a pronounced limp.
    "Other resources my butt," Jaden hissed at the image on screen. "Bet that's really hurting you today." She couldn't help her smug smile. But it faded as she tried to sort out why the police chief would be posing as a street rat.
    She pushed it to the back of her mind and went to greet the next class. She demonstrated, they followed, she encouraged, they panted. And still at the end of class, her mind hadn't unraveled the mystery. The chief was surely in the judge's pocket, so why not arrest her when he had the chance?
    Then, in the final pose of the cool down it hit her. Other resources. If Chuck tagged her with a tracking device, he could lead them straight to her. It was time to make a dive for the bottom of the societal pool until she planned her attack.
    "Jaden?"
    She turned to see her part-time assistant, Brenda Calhoun, threading her way through the departing class. "Hi there. You want to take the afternoon schedule?"
    "Sure." Brenda wrung her hands, and then swung her arms back into a stretch. "Um, my court date's tomorrow. You asked me to remind you."
    Jaden groaned inside. She couldn't dive when she had to appear as a witness for Brenda. "Thanks. I have it on my office calendar."
    "I appreciate it. Your set of photos is all that's left of that night."
    "What?" Jaden reeled from the shock like she'd been punched.
    "The hospital records went missing."
    "Who's presiding tomorrow?"
    "Judge A."
    "I see." Did she ever. The whole twisted picture.
    Brenda's ex-boyfriend had been a bailiff in Judge Albertson's courtroom. He'd apparently served him well, if the Judge was pulling favors like this. "Awful small case for Judge A to be looking at."
    "That's what my advocate-advisor said."
    Jaden wanted to groan. A battered woman, not nearly recovered, with only the aid of an advocate-advisor. She didn't stand a chance against a false accusation judgment. And Albertson loved to hand those out like candy on Halloween.
    "What do you need if you lose?"
    Brenda paled. Jaden hated making her think about the worst-case scenario, but it was a likely outcome.
    "I-I'm not sure."
    In a display far too rare these days, Jaden's heart softened. She led Brenda away from
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