Discretion

by Allison Leotta

  McGee took the bag and looked at it. The police flashers bounced red and blue light on the photograph of a woman’s face, smiling and beautiful. McGee knew the face, but she was so out of place and unexpected here, it took him a moment to recognize her. He stopped breathing for a moment. Good Lord.

  “Mirandized?” he asked Hector.

  “Yeah.”

  “Why do you have this picture?” McGee held it before the tattooed man.

  The guy’s weird smile grew. “She’s my girlfriend, man.”

  “The hell she is. Where’d you get this from?”

  “Go fuck yourself is where. I want my lawyer.”

  McGee shoved the guy into the back of the police cruiser and slammed the door. He paced the curb and considered calling Jack Bailey. Jack had a right to know. But McGee had heard what Jack and Anna were up to tonight. He didn’t want to ruin this night for them.

  He put the picture in his pocket. Let Jack and Anna have one night of happiness and celebration. They deserved it. He’d tell them tomorrow.

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  ALLISON LEOTTA’s debut novel, Law of Attraction, was named one of the best legal thrillers of 2010 by Suspense magazine. A former federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Leotta specialized in prosecuting sex crimes and domestic violence for over ten years. She left the Department of Justice in 2011 to pursue writing full-time. She lives with her husband, Michael, and their two sons in Takoma Park, Maryland.

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Leotta, Allison.

  Discretion / by Allison Leotta.

  p. cm.

  1. Public prosecutors—Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. 2. Prostitutes—

  Crimes against—Fiction. 3. Political fiction. I. Title.

  PS3612.E59D57 2012

  813′.6—dc23

  2011046311

  ISBN 978-1-4516-4484-5

  ISBN 978-1-4516-4486-9 (ebook)