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She nodded, wondering if he had known she worked at the firhtwhich was completely irrelevant because he didn’t know he’d even been with her on Friday night The cad!

‘It’s good we ran into you,’ Drew said, cutting into her increasingly irrational thoughts ‘I was just bringing Sam to your office’

Ruby tried not to show her alarm ‘You were?’

‘Yes With Mandy about to go into labour any day now, Saer case and I’d like you to bring hi to be bigger than Ben Hur, and I’d feela senior partner on board’

As ht before his first child was born, she had this case well in hand ‘Really, I have everything under control,’ she advised hi she sounded cool instead of defensive

‘Your last update said you were planning to put a political bigwig on the stand This thing is getting huge, Ruby’

‘I’ it,’ she stated crisply ‘I intend to do it’ She didn’t mean to bristle but she kne had been dubious about her taking this pro bono case in the first place, and there was no way she was going to pull her punches now or, heaven forbid, drop the case altogether Star Burger was an ihout Australia The owner, Carter Jones, had franchised his business but had neglected to put in ethical standards to protect his e frohout the organisation, and Ruby aimed to prove that it started at the top down

Winning would not only mean that her badly treated clients were paid thepeople ere typically vulnerable in the come’

‘Which is why Sam needs to help you out,’ Drew said, ‘he has experience with cases like this’ He looked from Sam to her ‘Plus he said you already know each other’

He had? Ruby sed ‘Only because my best friend married his brother We don’t actually kno each other’ Okay, so that time she had definitely sounded defensive; she knew it and steadfastly refused to look at Sam

‘I can take it from here, Drew,’ Sam assured the other man calmly ‘You still want this?’ He held the cup of cold coffee up to her

‘No But it’s a reusable cup, so you can’t throw it away’

‘Fine’ He held on to it for her ‘You’ll have to lead the way I have no idea where your office is’

Unable to coave hiht smile At least he didn’t knohat had transpired between the she did know and it was all she could think about, but she clung on to it anyway

Cool as a cucu the sway of Ruby’s body as shethe sweet curves of her bottos that ended in skyscraper heels This was the Ruby he’d e attitude wrapped in a glossy, unruffled package

Or so she would have him believe Because she wasn’t entirely unruffled if her inability to maintain eye contact with him was any indication That could be shock, of course, at having him turn up at her workplace He was a little in shock himself He hadn’t knohere Ruby worked before today and there was no way she could have known he was about to e his firm with Kent’s

They had deliberately kept the er quiet so as not to tip off the markets until it was a fait acco Ruby as an employee, certainly threw a spanner in the works He’d planned to get her phone number off Miller this week and call her up Deht and then tell her what he thought about them Tell her that next time she had sex with a man, she needed to wait around so that he could make sure she was okay and see her home

Given that she was treating hiht now, she probably wouldn’t have responded to his call very positively But they weren’t strangers at all They were lovers Well, maybe not lovers A lover didn’t run out on a man after she’d sent him to heaven and back, did she?