Page 84 of Already At Risk
six months ago
CAMERON
“Why do you keep looking at me like that?” I finally asked, needing to know what was going on in her mind.
Sunny immediately startled like she’d been caught doing something she shouldn’t and looked down at her drink.
“I thought maybe if I stared hard enough, I’d be able to tell if you’re secretly married,” she muttered before taking a sip, and I shook my head with a chuckle.
She was right to be cautious, but no.
“Here,” I said, dropping my phone on the bar top. “I’m not married, but you can look through this if you want.”
I had absolutely nothing to hide and everything to gain by her trusting me.
Sunny laughed, like I was joking.
I wasn’t.
I swiped up on the screen to unlock my phone. “I’m serious, take a look.”
“Oh, no.” She shook her head, sitting back in her chair like she actually wanted to get as far away from my phone as possible. “I don’t need to do that.”
“Probably for the best,” I sighed and pocketed my phone again. “You might see my gym progress photos and then realize I was lying when I said I didn’t go to the gym this week.”
“I knew it.” Her lips twitched as she pulled her straw into her mouth, chewing on it. I tried really hard not to stare at how her lips wrapped around it.
“It’s the only thing I lied about,” I promised.
Sunny rolled her eyes as she tried to repress a grin, but her next words were swallowed up by the sudden roar of music as a live band started up in the back of the bar. I knew from other visits to Mulligan’s that they did covers on the weekend, which was fine and all if it wasn’t so loud and I didn’t have a fine-ass woman I was trying to talk to.
But on the other hand…
“Hey, do you like to dance?”
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
cameron
I’D DONE SOME INTERNET stalking on Korey Abrams.
In the name of research.
For the case.
He worked for an architecture firm that had offices in both Boston and Springfield, where he planned to move, and I wanted to know more about the nature of that. Was the move mandatory? Something that his office dictated? Did he have ulterior custody motives when he’d originally requested permission from the court to relocate, or did that only happen after Natalie pushed back and triggered him?
It was too goddamn bad he wasn’t trying to move out of state. Too bad his family just happened to live near where he intended to bring Chloe. If either of those things were different, this likely wouldn’t even be a case.
Fuck, I’d beenwaitingfor this day.
And also dreading it, to a certain extent. Because what did you mean I had to walk into a room that had Korey Abrams in it andnotimmediately punch him in the face? Ibadlywanted to use the same fingers that had made his ex-wife come twice this morning to knock him the fuck out.
But I was only able to knock him out in a professional way. And I supposed that would have to do.
“Mr. Abrams,” I said with a nod of greeting when I strode into the conference room at Wilson and Thomas Law. “And Mr. Keller, nice to see you again.”
I cleared my throat, trying not to think of the last time I saw this man. I reallyshouldn’tbe thinking about Natalie’s deposition…when I had my hands all over her under the table. Then I might start thinking about the way I had my hands all over Natalie London no less than an hour ago. I might start thinking about the way she sighed my name, like I was the only one who’d ever made her feel that fucking good.
