Page 24 of Legal Desire
“Then how the hell did he find my address?” she asked. Just as Trevor hadn’t easily fooled her, neither would Edward. “If you hadn’t talked to him?”
“He was here,” her assistant acknowledged. “He was snooping around, asking all kinds of questions about you. Of course I refused to answer anything, but before I could throw him out...”
She would have loved to see him try. She doubted Trevor would have hurt him, but there was no way Edward would have even budged the much larger man.
Edward continued, “A reporter came in trying to get a statement about another client. Sinclair said he had to use the bathroom. But when the reporter left, I found him in here, going through your things. He must have found your address on something in here.”
She glanced around and noticed a stack of household bills on the corner of her desk. They were all addressed to the service address: her penthouse. Heat rushed to her face with embarrassment over the conclusion to which she’d jumped.
“I’m sorry, Edward. I shouldn’t have assumed you told him.” She felt a flash of disappointment that he hadn’t. It would have given her the perfect excuse to fire him, which was what she’d dragged herself out of bed to do.
Edward waved off her apology. “I don’t blame you,” he said. “That man is sneaky. I’m sure he made it sound like I’d told him.”
But that was the thing: he hadn’t.
Now she wondered again who was telling the truth. Then she remembered what else Edward had claimed. “You said he was asking other things about me.”
Edward nodded. His blond hair was thinning. While he was younger than she was, he was no doubt going to be bald soon. “Yes, personal things.”
“Like what?” Who she was seeing?
“If you’ve ever been married,” Edward said. “If you’ve changed your name, if you date lawyers...” He sniffed as if the thought smelled. “As if you’d ever date him.”
Date him. No. She knew better than that.
But fuck him...
That had been incredible—so incredible that she really wanted to do it again. Soon.
Her body already ached for his. “Call him,” she told Edward. “Summon him here.”
She wished it was for sex. But this meeting wasn’t about pleasure. It was going to be all business.
