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A knock came at my door, and she entered a few seconds later.
“You wanted to see me?” She was nervous; I could hear it in her tone.
“What the hell was that?” The ice in my voice coated every word. “What did I say to you when I let you stay here? You should treat this business with respect and dignity. Where do you get off making snide remarks about my clients.”
I didn’t raise my voice at all, but she still flinched.
“I’m sorry,” she looked down at her feet. “I let my emotions get the better of me when I shouldn’t have.” That was putting it lightly. I had warned her, and maybe it was because I had seen Ashton’s face after she left or the fact that something had just been brewing, but my fuse had ended with her. I wanted to rip into her and unleash all my rage, but I held some of it back.
“Our client is innocent, Selena. He already has the world blaming him for a crime he did not commit.
The last thing he needs is the people who have sworn to defend him judging him, too.
That woman is a gold-digger, claiming this man to be a liar. She has taken everything from
him and is using her social media following to help destroy him. People like her deserve to be
called-out.”
She flicked her eyes upward, causing me to falter. She didn’t utter a single word, but the emotion in her eyes was so intense that it made me close my mouth. Her features contorted into one of pain, but still, she did not say anything.
“If you want to continue to work here, you will fall into line, Selena. You will not speak unless spoken to or move an inch until given an order. You play by my rules. Am I clear?”
Her jaw locked in place, the sound of grinding teeth filling the thick silence. “Crystal,Mr. Sinclair.”
There was that ever-present sass from her. Her jaw was hard set, and her hands were balled into fists at her side. She was holding herself back but had no room to be angry here. She was the one who had crossed the line.
“Good, now leave. I will be seeing you tomorrow bright and early.”
“I think I should take my own car.”
“I said I will see you tomorrow, Miss Abrams. Have a good night.” There was no room in my tone for arguments, and she knew better than to try. She was already on thin ice.
“Of course.” And then she was gone.
Chapter fourteen
Back Against the Wall
Selena
“Come on, it’s my birthday.” Brandon pouted at me. “You said we were friends.”
I filed away the last of the documents for the Ashton case and leaned back in my seat. I was still seething from the little spat that I had with Daniel. I had been so close to letting us slip. I had let my emotions get the better of me.
“I’m really tired,” Brandon’s face visibly dropped. “I just want to lay down and rest. Today took a lot out of me.”
Had I crossed a line? Probably. Okay, I had crossed a line. Not every man was going to be like Marcus. Not every man was filled with vengeance and hatred. But I could not help the way my brain worked. I was hard-wired to see the very worst of them.
“You should come, Abrams,” Lisa said from her side of the room. Her eyes were glued onto the deposition she was reading. “You’re the one that is always talking about how you want to fit in. Now here is your chance, and you won’t even take it? A little counterproductive, no?”
“And you’re going?”
She flicked her gaze up at me momentarily and then shifted her gaze back down to her file. “Of course, he practically begged me. And he promised me tickets to Wimbledon.”
I looked to Brandon, to which he shrugged. “My dad knows people.”
I always forget that this man is a part of the top 1% in the world and not just some random broke college intern who just graduated. Brandon wasn’t the stuck-up kind that looked down on others who may not have grown up as wealthy and well off.
