Page 51 of Legal Desire
She just offered him a short nod as she walked back behind her desk. She wanted it between them. But he rounded it, too, and leaned down to press his mouth to hers.
“I will see you later,” he said determinedly.
The penthouse wasn’t the only property her grandfather had owned in the city. She could go someplace else, someplace he wouldn’t find her. And she just might, to protect herself.
At the thought of not being with him, that hollow feeling spread in her body—in her heart. She nodded again.
He must have been satisfied with the response because he headed toward the door. It had only been closed behind him for a few moments before it opened again.
She glanced up from her desk, hoping it was him, hoping that he could somehow convince her to trust him again. But it was Edward.
“You didn’t knock,” she pointed out. And she was glad he hadn’t just walked in earlier—when she and Trevor had been having sex.
But that was all it had been.
They didn’t make love. They weren’t in love...
But then what was that ache in her chest?
“Turn on the TV,” Edward directed her. But he didn’t wait for her to find the remote on her desk. He found it himself and turned on the flat screen that was on the wall across from her desk.
“It’s no secret,” a local television reporter said, “that the Street Legal law practice has been having some difficulties lately. What has been strange is that the PR firm that has helped make Street Legal a household name has not been issuing any statements to address those difficulties. Now we have learned why. A source close to both the law practice and the PR firm has informed me that McCann Public Relations has actually been sabotaging the practice.”
The reporter was a young woman with whom Allison had often had drinks. While the ambitious reporter always pumped her for information, she also spoke candidly with Allison about her own life—her love interests, her goals. She’d thought they were friends. How could she have reported this without talking to her first?
It was just another reason Allison had to trust no one, especially not Trevor. Had he been here, distracting her while his partners had been feeding these lies to the reporter?
The young woman continued, “We don’t know yet her motivation for trying to take down the practice she helped build up, but given the reputations of the four partners, it could be the case of a woman scorned.”
It hadn’t been. But Allison felt scorned now.
Trevor had to have known about the report. And still he’d had sex with her.
She had been such a fool.
“Are you okay?” Edward asked with concern.
Allison stood up and for the first time since she’d overheard that meeting at Street Legal, she felt as if she’d found her footing again. She wasn’t okay. She was furious.
And no matter how the hell sexy Trevor Sinclair was, he wasn’t going to seduce her out of doing what she was about to do.
As she stormed from the office, Edward called after her, trying to stop her. But there was no stopping her now.
