Page 43 of Legal Desire
But he understood why Ronan was mad.
“So if she has mommy issues, why mess with us?” Simon asked.
Trev didn’t know. There was nothing feminine about any one of them. Not even their receptionist. He shrugged. “It doesn’t make sense.”
So was she really the mole? But if not, then who else? She was the one who’d had access to every affected case. She was the one. She had to be.
How he wished like hell that she wasn’t.
Stone groaned and shook his head in disgust. “I knew you were attracted to her. I knew she was going to get to you.”
Heat rushed to Trev’s face as he thought of her, of the ways she’d brought him more pleasure than he’d ever known. But she wasn’t getting to him. That was just sex. He shook his head. “Not at all!”
“You’re not attracted to her?” Stone asked. He was the criminal lawyer with killer cross-examination skills.
Even though he wasn’t on the stand, Trev had no doubt that Stone could break him. So he just confessed, “Hell, yes, I’m attracted to her. Have you seen her?”
“You’re sleeping with her,” Ronan said, and now he sounded disgusted.
Hadn’t any of them noticed how stunningly beautiful and sexy Allison was? What? Were all his partners blind?
“That wasn’t part of your plan,” Simon said. “You were supposed to get closeworkingwith her.” Simon had once thought Bette was the mole and had tried seducing the truth out of her. But she’d seduced him instead.
Having seen some of her lingerie firsthand on Allison, Trev wasn’t surprised Simon had gotten so distracted. He knew that he was, too—that he’d let her get to him.
“Yeah, how is thecampaigncoming?” Stone asked, amusement twinkling in his gray eyes. They all knew that there was no way he would actually run for office—any office.
He enjoyed what he did too much. He enjoyed taking down the big corporations who cared nothing about who they hurt, like they’d hurt Wally.
“It’s stalled out,” Trev admitted.
“Why?” Simon asked. “Because you’re sleeping with her instead?”
“Because she wants me to leave the practice and ditch you losers,” Trev said.
Simon gasped.
Ronan cursed. Her. In a particularly vulgar term that had Trev’s hands clenching into fists. And Stone stood up, so he was between them.
“Settle down,” Stone told them all. “It’s not like he’s actually going to do what she says.”
“But why would she say that?” Ronan asked.
“Because Street Legal hasn’t exactly had good press lately,” Trev pointed out.
“And whose fault is that?” Ronan asked. “She’s the one making us look bad.”
“I don’t have any proof of that, though,” Trev reminded them. And until they did, they couldn’t accuse her of anything.
“I don’t care,” Simon said. “We can’t risk having her around the practice anymore. We need to terminate the business relationship with her and ban her from the building.”
“And you need to terminate your personal relationship,” Stone told him. “For your own sake.”
Trev shook his head. “I’ve got it all under control.”
“But you don’t have the evidence we need to press charges against her,” Ronan said. He was still furious.
And Trev couldn’t blame him. If the documents submitted to the bar hadn’t been proven to be forgeries, he could have lost his law license.
