Page 46 of Legal Desire
The only thing she’d done wrong was getting personally involved with him.
“Maybe you were looking for job security,” Ronan suggested. “You create a problem and then you fix it.”
“What problems do you think I created?” she asked.
“It started with Trev,” Simon said. “His last big class-action lawsuit.”
“He won it,” she reminded them. What the hell were they talking about?
“That’s just because he’s that good,” Simon said. “But information got leaked to opposing counsel.”
“And you think I did that?” She looked at Trevor now and his eyes were narrowed, suspicion in the green depths. And she shivered.
“You said your father defends corporations like that,” Trevor reminded her. “Was he defending that one?”
She shook her head. “But it wouldn’t have mattered if he was,” she said. “I wouldn’t have helped him.”
“Daddy issues,” Ronan murmured.
And she glared at him.
“Is that why you went after me?” the divorce lawyer asked. “You sent Muriel those forged documents she turned in to the bar association.”
“What?” She knew he’d been reported to the bar, but she’d tried to undo the damage. “I didn’t forge any documents.”
“What about the information that was given to the assistant district attorney in my last trial?” Stone Michaelsen asked. “She knew information, supposedly from my case files, before I even knew it.”
Each of their accusations struck Allison like a blow. They all really believed that she’d betrayed them. Even Trevor.
“And how do you think I got that information?” Allison asked.
“You have access to all our files, to our computers,” Simon said.
“So? I’m not the only one who does. It could have been anyone on your staff.”
Simon shook his head. “I’ve checked all of them out. It’s not.”
“Well, it’s not me,” she said. But she was sick of defending herself, especially with them all looking at her like they were, like she was a criminal. “But please, block my access to your computers. Ban me from the building. I have no intention of ever coming back here.” She turned on her heel then and stalked out of the room.
“Allison!” It was Trevor’s deep voice that called out to her.
She didn’t even look back, though. She just said over her shoulder, “Go to hell!”
She had no intention of ever seeing him again, either.
