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“What now?” I hissed.
“Don’t get mad, boss. But Ruby Rose is in your office. I told her I was not allowing anyone to step foot in here without an appointment,” she said proudly, chin up, shoulders back.
“Yet, you let her in?”
“She said she just needed sixty seconds. One minute. She said you’d understand. She was very specific.” She shrugged.
Now, it was my turn to laugh.
Fuck me.
I would have been pissed if she’d turned Ruby away.
I held up my hand when she started talking again, and I made my way to my office. I pushed the door open, and there she was, sitting behind my desk, looking like a badass. Long, tan legs crossed at the ankles where her black military boots were propped on my desk. She was wearing a white sundress of sorts, showing off all that golden skin.
My mouth watered at the sight of her, and my day suddenly turned around.
“Hey there, Queenie. I hear you need sixty seconds of my time,” I said, waggling my brows playfully at her.
“You’re so predictable. Of course, you fell for that.” She pushed upright, her legs falling beneath the desk, and I immediately missed them. Although she leaned forward, elbows on my desk, giving me a perfect view of her modest cleavage. “Did you seriously offer to represent my mother?”
She was pissed.
This woman was so hot and cold I couldn’t keep it straight.
Now she hated me again?
“Excuse me? Are you seriously barging into my office to reprimand me for something you know nothing about?”
She pushed to her feet and stormed toward me, her finger poking me in the chest hard. “What I know is that my mother has no money. She said that you’ve agreed to help her fight Jimbo, who, by the way, did nothing legally wrong, in case you don’t know the law. He took money out of a joint account. Just like she does all the time. She’s batshit crazy, and if you represent her, you will lose, and then I’ll get slammed with a bullshit bill. Not happening.”
I snatched her finger and wrapped my hand around it. “So what is it you’re worried about? Me losing the case, or you getting stuck with a bill?”
She narrowed her gaze and tried to pull her finger away, but I held it still. “Both. It’s ridiculous for you to take her on as a client.”
I leaned forward, my chest brushing against hers. “We finally agree on something.”
“So why did you agree to be her lawyer?”
“I didn’t. I kicked her and her lunatic husband out of the office. There is no case. But I would have told you that if you hadn’t come in here with both guns blazing.”
“Oh.”
“Oh? That’s all you have to say? You poked me in the chest, and once again, you tell me that I don’t know how to do my job.”
Her tongue peeked out and moved along her bottom lip, and my dick jerked to life.
This woman got under my skin like no other.
“No. I said that if you’d taken her on as a client that it wouldn’t be very lawyerly,” she said, the corners of her lips turning up.
And goddamn, when Ruby Rose smiled, it was like catching the last glimpse of the sun before it set.
It was rare.
And sweet.
I leaned down and wrapped my lips around her finger, and she gasped before I released it. “Either way, I think an apology is in order.”
