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Austin was exhausted when he returned to his spacious two-bedroom penthouse apartht upstairs fros and hoht As it alas, the suite was i woh meals for a few days, and left them in the freezer for him to heat up
His apartment took up half of the top floor, faced the front of the building, and had large, floor-to-ceiling s It held the usual living rooe oak desk that faced his bedrooraduation present from Nick, as was the apartment, and Austin had added little in the way of decoration except for the life-size portrait of Nick that hung on the wall It also ca way toward relaxing hi over the corporation without Nick's direction was overwhel his work ho that needed his attention, even after he hired two more corporate lawyers to help him
He didn't havehis horse on Saturday o to bars, even the one downstairs, and had few single friends He tried a dating service for a couple of et
No social life, that is, until he happened to come across Sissy3211 on the internet
He met her in a forum and he didn't remember why, but they struck up a conversation about horses Sissy3211 had never seen a horse up close, but that wasn't unusual - there were lots of city people who hadn't She asked questions and he enjoyed answering them Eventually, their method of communication , he found hient, funny, and didn't type single letters instead of actual words, like es She didn't use profanity either, although some of the stories she told about the people she worked with deserved a few choice words All in all, she had qualities he found refreshing in a woman Hopefully, she was a woman…she seemed to talk like one anyway
She had one very strict rule - no personal information, which made him believe she truly was a woman Her rule worked in his favor too So to sink their hooks into a lawyer, especially one in control of such a huge estate On the other hand, taking Sissy3211 out to dinner sure sounded better than another microwave meal He opened his laptop, clicked on his personal email icon and scanned the list None of the emails were from Sissy, but that wasn't unusual