Page 68 of Legal Desire
Trevor finally nodded. “She didn’t want you to marry a politician and become first lady like she wanted.”
Allison’s face burned with embarrassment. “She has no idea that there were no emotions involved with us, so she had Edward contact the reporter. She wanted to end our relationship. She didn’t know there was no relationship to end.”
“Allison, that’s not true—”
“No,” she interrupted him. “Nothing you told me was true.” And no matter how much she loved him, she would never be able to trust him.
“I was trying to catch the damn mole,” he said. “I didn’t feel for you the way that I do now.”
“Don’t!” she shouted. “Don’t lie to me anymore.”
He shook his head. “I’m trying to tell you the truth. I was trying to last night and this morning. But you don’t want to hear it.”
“What I don’t want to hear is a bunch of lies, a bunch of empty promises.” Like her father had always given her.We’ll still spend time together. I’ll come see you. I love you...
Trevor was more like him than she’d realized. And because of that, she couldn’t love him. Whatever she’d thought she’d felt for him, it hadn’t been that.
“I won’t lie to you anymore,” he said.
She shook her head now. “That’s just another empty promise.”
“Allison!”
“It doesn’t matter,” she said. “What we had was just sex. No emotions, remember?”
“You didn’t start to care about me?” he asked.
She drew in a deep breath before she replied, “No. It was just sex.”
“Who’s the liar now, Allison?” he asked.
She knew she’d been lying. But she didn’t know if it was now or when she’d actually thought she’d fallen for him. She was her mother’s daughter, and her mother had never cared about anyone but herself.
How could Allison?
It was better that she focus on business now and forget all about pleasure. She had to revive the firm. She wouldn’t let it fail because of what her mother and Edward had done. But from now on, she would be a little more careful about the clients she took on.
No more lawyers.
No more liars.
“Let me go,” she told Trevor.
But he’d already taken his hand away from the door. He wasn’t physically keeping her, and he pointed that out when he said, “I never really had you...”
But he had. And even as she opened the door and walked away, she suspected a part of her would always be with him.
Her heart...
