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sniff out.   Which
means I need money to get lost.   Your
kind of money.”
    Sal
stared at his old friend.   And he
suddenly felt trapped.   He thought about
Gemma, a woman who was the most upstanding woman he’d ever met, a woman who
swore to uphold the laws of the land without flinching.   An attorney no less.   She would have a fit if she even knew he was
having this discussion.  
    But
then he thought about what Patty had done for him.   That was no simple favor.   He had saved Patty’s bacon by firing that
shot, but Patty had saved his by shutting his trap.   He was in a tough spot.  
    But
it wasn’t like he had a choice.

 
    After
making that choice, Sal got away from Jersey as fast as he could.   It had been a long, hard trip and he couldn’t
get away fast enough.   And some six hours
later, still drained and jet lagged, but excited to see Gemma again, he walked
into the lobby of the Clark County Courthouse.   And he saw her, upstairs in the atrium, hugging on some tall, good
looking, black stud of a man.   His heart
sank.  
    It
wasn’t exactly the kind of welcome back he was expecting.  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
    THREE
          
    “What
in the world are you doing in Vegas?” Gemma and Marsh Denning stopped their
friendly embrace.   They were in the
atrium of the courthouse, with all manner of movement around them, and Marsh
had just surprised her with his presence.    “The last time I saw you was in Seattle, at the convention.”
    “I’m
here on a case,” Marsh replied.   “I
started out as the consulting attorney, but now they’ve asked me to take over
as lead.”
    “Well
good for you.”
    “Thanks.   But it’s a messy one.”
    “In
Vegas, they all are.”   Marsh laughed.
    “So
look at you,” he said.   “I learned so
much from that class you taught at that lawyers convention.   Think you’ll teach it again next time
around?”
    “Hell
to the no,” Gemma said, and Marsh laughed again.
    Sal
was downstairs, looking up at the twosome and how easily Gemma was making the
guy laugh.
    “Besides,”
Gemma added, “I doubt if they ask me back.   I wasn’t exactly the talk of the convention.”
    “But
you were a great teacher, don’t shortchange yourself.   You had your facts together.   That’s what I love about you, Gem.   You take care of business.”
    Gemma
studied Marsh.   What she remembered most about
him wasn’t his competence at all, or his business acumen, but his
unfaithfulness to his wife.   He was
married, supposedly happily married, but he couldn’t stop trying to pick her
up.   When she turned him down, twice, he
searched out other females.   He was, in
truth, exactly what she despised in men.   He was, in truth, the very reason she was taking it slow with her own
man.
    “But
yeah, it’s so good to see you again,” he said.   “I miss that knowledge of yours.   Not to mention that rockin’ body.”   He said this with a smile and looked down the length of that body.   Sal saw him make that look.
    Same
old Marsh, Gemma thought.   “So how’s your
wife?” she asked.
    Marsh
smiled.   “Oh, so you remember my marital
status.”
    Gemma
didn’t respond to that.   It wasn’t a joke
to her.
    Marsh
got the point and stopped smiling. “She’s good,” he said.   “Thanks for asking.”
    Gemma
knew the last thing he wanted to do was thank her for asking about his wife, or
to remember he had one.
    “Anyway,
I’d better run,” Gemma said, and put out her hand.   “Nice seeing you again.”
    Marsh
took her hand, but held onto it.   He even
placed his other hand on top, sandwiching her in.   Sal saw that too.   There was a time he would have run up those
stairs and socked the guy for the imposition alone, but it wasn’t the way the
guy was reacting to Gemma that interested him at this phase in their
relationship.   It was Gemma’s
reaction.   His greatest fear was that
their long distance