Page 50 of Legal Desire
She could understand now how she had looked guilty. But their staff was large. “What about a worker?”
“Bette—”
“Bette was obviously proven to have nothing to do with it.” She’d seen the managing partner out and about with his former assistant. They were very involved.
But then so were she and Trevor, and he’d suspected her of being the saboteur.
“What about Miguel?” she asked. And she shivered even as she suggested it.
Trevor laughed as if the thought was ridiculous.
“I came there today to see you,” she said. She touched her bra through her dress. “To show you my new outfit. Miguel brought me back to Simon’s office. He opened the door.”
As if he’d wanted her to overhear their discussion about her...
Had he been trying to help her? Or hurt her? She couldn’t read the receptionist any better than people claimed they were able to read her.
Trevor’s brow furrowed now. “That is weird.” Then he shook his head. “But Miguel has always been so loyal. He appreciated us giving him the job too much to risk it.”
She shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe he’s jealous that you all started out in the same place but you and the partners made a lot more money.”
His brow furrowed again.
“And you said the opposing counsel for that pharmaceutical company got something from your case notes,” she remembered. “I’m sure they paid dearly for it. Maybe this person—”
“Mole,” Trevor said.
“Maybe this mole is just about making some extra money.”
He shook his head. “No. Muriel didn’t pay for those forged documents that she turned over to the bar association. And Hillary Bellows certainly didn’t pay for anything from Stone’s case files.”
“So it’s about a grudge, then.” Miguel made sense to her since he probably went back with them as far as the partners did with each other. She would have suggested that it could have been one of them, but she remembered how furious Trevor had gotten when she’d told him to distance himself from his friends. If she accused one of them of having betrayed him, she had no doubt that they would be over.
They should be over—whatever it was that they had.
After knowing he’d been keeping secrets from her, she wouldn’t entirely ever be able to trust him again. Not that she’d really trusted him.
She’d learned a long time ago never to trust anyone. But her grandfather...
Unfortunately, she’d begun to think Trevor was more like her grandfather than her father. She’d been wrong.
He was staring at her again as if he was trying to read her mind. And she wondered if he truly believed she wasn’t the mole or if he was still trying to play her.
He’d told his partners that he would come up with something new to try to get the truth out of her. Was this it? Pretend to believe in her innocence?
She shook her head. “I don’t know.”
“It’s not your problem,” Trevor told her.
And for a moment she was confused—then she realized that he thought she was just saying that she didn’t know who the mole was.
“We’ll figure it out,” he said. “And I’ll let you get back to work.”
Fortunately, she did have other clients because no matter if his partners and he believed her or not, she was no longer going to work for Street Legal.
“I’ll see you later?” He said it as a question. He must have sensed her withdrawal.
She wasn’t certain if he would or not. She wasn’t certain she trusted him or herself enough to be with him again. Maybe it was better to end the personal relationship along with the business one.
