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When I was halfway through the probable cause warrant, my desk phone sounded.
“This is Elizabeth Tanner,” I answered. “How may I help you?”
“Why haven’t you returned my phone calls?”
Ugh, Damien. “You haven’t called me in weeks.”
“I haven’t heard from you inweeks.”
“That doesn’t change what I’m saying.”
“I have work to do, Damien.”
“Yes, with me,” he said. “If you meet me at Ambrosia’s I’ll forgive you for your reckless quitting.”
“You’llforgiveme?”
“I will,” he said. “It’ll be like it never happened.”
I hung up in his face and blocked his number from my work phone.
RELEASE (V.)
TO GIVE UP A RIGHT AS RELEASING ONE FROM HIS/HER OBLIGATION TO PERFORM UNDER A CONTRACT
DAMIEN
My offer of forgiveness expires this week.
We have six cases we need to get through by this afternoon.
Did you block my number?
“Is there a reason why Miss Tanner has stopped bringing that Cuban blend of coffee to the office?”
“Miss Tanner no longer works here…Stop looking at me like that.”
“Why’d you fire her?”
“I didn’t. She quit.” I sighed.
“I’ll let you borrow a few associates for your cases this month.”
“Thank you.”
“Did she quit on good terms?”
“I don’t know.”
“Did she leave anything behind?”
Jesus Christ. “She left an entire bag of that coffee you like in her bottom drawer.”
“All I wanted to know.” He left, shutting the door behind him.
Later that evening,I stood outside Elizabeth’s front door, waiting for her to come home.
She stepped off the elevator a little after nine o’clock, but her smile faded once she saw me.
