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“Patrick is asking for all your notes on his case. Can I give them to him?”

The mention of his name brought her out of her sleep addled state. “Victoria, hi, sorry. I was napping. Did he say what he wants with them?” Was he about to fire her? She was still listed as the lead attorney on his case, but she’d fully intended to let Victoria do most of the heavy lifting, with her just supervising from a distance.

“He didn’t say. Just said he has a theory he wants to chase down.”

“He’s entitled to see his file. Give it to him.”

“You got it boss. Sorry if I woke you up. He’s just being very persistent.”

“It’s fine. I saw the boxes that got dumped on you. I’ll come help you sift through it later. I might bring, Jax Fischer in too.”

When she ended the call, she washed her face and changed clothes. Patrick may not be her Dom anymore, but he was still her client and she had an ethical responsibility to give him the best defense possible.

On the way to her office, she called Jax.

“You want to stay up all night and dig through boxes of legal documents?” she asked.

“Boy howdy, you know how to show a man a good time, don’t you?” he said through laughter. “Are we looking for anything specific?” he asked when his laugher subsided.

“I’m not sure. Someone on the prosecution’s witness list who had access to Patrick’s lab?”

Jax gave a frustrated growl. “I wish you two would talk to each other. He called me earlier and asked me to look into everyone who had access to his lab. Y’all are more on the same page than you think you are.”

Austin grew quiet. “It’s complicated,” she said after a moment.

“All the good stuff is,” Jax said. “We’ll see what we can dig up. I hired Lance temporarily and threatened his balls if he does anything even remotely black hat hacker like. He’s following the money trail for me. We’ll get him on a video call.”

“As long as it’s all legal enough that I can bring it up in a courtroom, I don’t care how he gets it.”

“I’ll bring dinner. The sooner we get him out of this mess the sooner y’all can kiss and make up.”

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