Page 47 of Legal Desire
CHAPTER TEN
TREVHADAsick feeling that he’d made a terrible, terrible mistake. As he’d told his partners, everything she’d said had made sense. Why would she sabotage them when it would also reflect poorly on her firm?
Sure, maybe he’d come up against her father on a case before. He couldn’t know for certain when she didn’t use her last name. But he had a feeling that if he had, she would have worked doubly hard to help Trev win just so her father would lose.
And if she’d had any real daddy issues, she probably wouldn’t have taken on Street Legal as a client in the first place.
His partners were not as convinced of her innocence as he was, but he’d left them mulling it over to chase after her. Of course, she’d already left the building before he’d been able to break away from that business meeting.
But he’d rushed right over to her office the minute he’d been free. Of course, Edward stood guard in the reception area, staring resentfully at Trevor over his desk.
“What are you doing here?” her assistant asked. “I thought you all fired her.”
Trev shook his head. “She told us to go to hell.” Or had it just been him?
Edward smirked. “Can you blame her?”
Had the little weasel been with her at the office? Trev couldn’t imagine her telling her assistant everything that had transpired. His suspicion must have showed because Edward added, “I’ve never seen her as upset as she was when she came back from Street Legal. She was just about ranting and raving about your accusations.”
Trev flinched. While the others had piled on their suspicions, they had all been his accusations. He was the one who’d accused her first—to them. Maybe he should have waited more than that weekend before sharing his suspicions. Maybe he should have waited until he’d actually found evidence against her.
Because now he had a feeling that evidence didn’t exist...
She wasn’t the mole.
“I need to talk to her,” Trev said.
Edward snorted. “Are you crazy? She will kill us both if I let you back there.”
Trev didn’t doubt what the man said. She had been furious when she’d left Street Legal.
“I’ll calm her down,” he assured her anxious assistant.
Edward snorted again. “I don’t think that’s possible.”
“Neither is you keeping me from seeing her,” Trev pointed out as his patience wore thin. He’d already wasted time talking to his partners when he should have stopped her from leaving before he’d talked to her.
Before he’d apologized...
No wonder she was so furious.
And if she tried to kill him, he wouldn’t blame her. It was a chance he was willing to take—for her. He walked past Edward’s desk and headed down the hall that led to her office. Edward jumped up and called after him, loudly, “Don’t go back there! I’ll call security. I’ll call the police!”
But Trevor didn’t have to look back to know that he wasn’t picking up the phone. He wouldn’t want to miss a minute of Trevor’s confrontation with his boss.
Trevor reached the end of the hall and the door to her office. He hesitated for a long moment before turning the handle. Then he drew in a deep breath and opened the door, releasing the breath with relief when he found it unlocked. Not that a lock would have stopped him.
He would have kicked it down to talk to her—after he’d seen that look on her face. Her ice queen mask had slipped. She’d looked devastated and outraged. She had not looked guilty. Even his partners had remarked on that. Of course, none of them were trusting enough to believe that proved her innocence. Until Trev found the real mole, they would all still suspect it was her. And they wanted the practice and him to have nothing to do with her.
But just as he hadn’t wanted her telling him with whom he could be friends, he hadn’t wanted them to do the same. Not that he was friends with Allison.
Hell, he wasn’t sure what they were.
Lovers.
Enemies?
She looked up as he entered, and he saw the anger and resentment in her beautiful pale blue eyes. “Get out!” she shouted, but her voice cracked with the command.
