“You were over eighteen at the time, correct?”Evan asked.
“There’s no statute of limitations on statutory rape,” JJ noted.
Decker ignored her.“Yeah.I’d graduated already.I was an adult.”
“But not for the four years you were in high school,” Brantley stated, distraught by the thought.“And we all know sex with a minor is illegal.”
Decker shot him a glare.“Her career would’ve been over if it got out.”
“Did she really give a shit?”Brantley snapped.“Or was she scared her ass would’ve been put in jail for having sex with a child?”
“It wasn’t like that,” Decker argued.
“The fuck it wasn’t.You were fourteen.The same fucking age as her daughter, for Christ’s sake.She was in her goddamn thirties, Decker.That’s a fucking felony.”
Decker’s jaw bunched, and Brantley could tell he was holding back his rage.Barely.
“Worst case, it was indecency with a child,” Decker said through clenched teeth.
Oh for fuck’s sake.It made Brantley’s stomach turn that the guy had already looked up the penalties for it.
“You meanbestcase,” Evan corrected.
Reese cleared his throat.“Let’s move on.”
“We were gonna get married,” Decker said when the room remained silent.
Brantley snorted.“She was already married, you asshole.She had kids.Did you ever think about them?Fuck no.Because you were a kid.”
He did not like that Decker didn’t seem concerned about Kylie’s family at all.
“Her marriage was over already.”
Brantley bit his tongue.His comments were getting them nowhere.It didn’t matter what Decker said; Brantley would never be okay with this.Never.Meredith Prescott should be in prison for her actions.
Simon sat up straight, his full attention on Decker.“Did Martin Calloway have anything to back up his threat?”
“Pictures.”
“Of you and Eddie,” Simon clarified.
“Yeah.”
“I assume these were compromising photos.”
“They were.When we first got together, I took pictures of her … of ustogether.There might be a video or two.”
Jesus.Brantley didn’t know Meredith Prescott, but he knew for a fact he didn’t like her.
“Where’d he get them?”Simon continued.
Decker glared at the man.“From me.”
“How’s that possible?”
“Because I took them.”
“So you said.But how’d he get them?”
