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“Well, maybe you should have thought about that before you let another woman suck your dick,” I hiss in reply. Because it’s too little, too late. All his pretty words and guilt can’t take back what he did.

“I didn’t. I never would have. What you saw was me trying to get her off me. I didn’t ask her to do that. I was trying to get away from her.”

“Sure, it looked like you were putting up one hell of a fight.” I roll my eyes.

“I know what it looked like, and I know what you saw. But I promise you I would never do that. Not to anyone. Especially not to you. Never. Mrs Dalmore, she came on to me. I turned her down.”

“It doesn’t matter, Alistair.” I shake my head and sigh. “We both knew this wasn’t a forever thing. How could it be? You’re my boss and so much older than me and, well, you’re my boss. Or was… I guess you’re not anymore.” I’m giving him an out.

“You still have your job, Dani. You’re not quitting. And maybe, at the start, this was just a bit of fun. But we moved well beyond that, don’t you think?”

I want to believe him. This is why I refused to see him. I knew he’d try to convince me of his innocence, and I want nothing more than to take him at his word. But I can’t. I can’t feel this level of pain anymore.

I won’t…

TWENTY-TWO

“What do I have to do to get you to trust me? For you to believe I’m telling the truth?” I ask her.

“You could start by uncuffing me,” she says.

“If I do that, you’re going to run again,” I tell her.

“Maybe. Maybe not.”

“I’m not risking it. Please, Dani, just tell me. What can I do?” I plead, only to realize nothing I say will convince her. I shake my head and sigh. “I didn’t want to have to show you this. Because I thought what we had would be enough for you to take my word. But we’re attorneys, and nothing beats tangible evidence. So here. Watch this.” I pull up the security feed, navigating to the date in question. We don’t all have cameras installed in our offices and I don’t always have them turned on, but when I have a particularly sensitive client meeting, I do. Sometimes I rewatched them to try to find anything I might have missed.

“What is this?” Dani asks, staring at the video on my phone.

“It’s the CCTV footage from my office, on that day. Watch, listen,” I tell her, turning up the volume.

“There isn’t anything you can do or say to change things between us, Alistair, because I believe you,” she says. “I don’t need to see this.”

“You do?” My shoulders sag in relief as I toss my phone aside.

“I do, but it doesn’t mean we can go back to what we were. It’s not right. It’s not going to work out between us, and I don’t want to get hurt again,” she says. “This was the wake-up call I needed to remind me whatever this is between us can’t happen. I can’t risk feeling this way again.”

“I’m not going to hurt you. I never want to hurt you. I want you. You and me, we are the real deal, Dani,” I tell her.

“Uncuff me, Alistair.” She sighs.

Against my better judgement, I reach over and loosen the cuff around her wrist. “Please don’t do this, Dani. Don’t end us.”

“What exactly do you want to happen here?” she asks.

What do I want to happen?“I want to go back to how we were. I want to be with you, only you. No one else.”

“No one else? Exclusive?” she attempts to clarify.

“I’ve always considered us exclusive, Dani,” I tell her.

“I wasn’t sure?” She shrugs. “Is this Mrs Dalmore still a client?”

“No, I told her to find a new attorney.”

“Does it happen often? Clients approaching you like that?” She continues with her line of questioning, like any good lawyer would—or paralegal in this case.

“Sometimes, but not to that extreme,” I admit.

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