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She relaxed as they seeround “Psychoanalyze away,” she said lightly, “but you should know the analogy doesn’t ell If I’d really wanted tocrione to some nice, co non-profit law or some such, which would have dovetailed nicely with all those charity auctions I’”
He grinned, seeht he’d shown up at her townhouse “All right,” he said, folding his are”
She gave him a look of mock skepticism “You think?”
Ignoring her bait, Connor realized it was time to turn the tables on her She’d probed and poked and e ured he was entitled to reciprocate “Why do you do it?”“Do what?”
“Work at the DA’s Office when you clearly don’t have to, and when you could have gotten a cushier job, which your family clearly expected you to do”
She cocked her head to the side and contee
“Fess up, princess You’re not the only one who kno to be dogged with questions” She looked deliciously delectable perched on the bar stool, her long legs encased in snug blue jeans, a cotton top outlining a pert and enticingly rounded chest
“Would you believe me if I said a passion for justice?” she asked “Before a late-life career in the law, my mother was the queen of those philanthropic charity benefits you’re so fond of I guess soooder stuff rubbed off on me and my brothers”
“And yet, your family wasn’t thrilled by your choice of the DA’s Office” Connor forced hi about despite the weight that had settled in his groin
She looked down as if to shield her expression fros as she did so, one of thefrom her foot “You may have noticed they’re rather protective”
“No irl,” he finished for her
She looked up, her eyeshis “Exactly”
He smiled “Well, you sure as heck didn’t ood job of rattling the bars of the cage”
She gave hi about that, wouldn’t you?”
He held up his hands in mock surrender “Let’s make a deal to steer clear of that episode in the bar I’ll admit it wasn’t one of my finer moments I usually don’t deal in trickery”
She looked soy, but he couldn’t help adding, “Anyway, it’s not as if that night in the bar was out of character for you”
“Oh?”
There was a wealth of ood for him, he should probably shut up now Unfortunately, he was rarely one to shut up where Allison was concerned “What about the year you started a cairls to accidentally on purpose show up for class braless?” He grinned “As I recall, it was the first time your school had to make a rule about underwear”
“We werea political statement!”
“Yeah, to the enjoyment of the male half of the student body,” he said dryly He’d heard about the ensuing ruckus from Quentin
“The point,” she said tightly, “was to show that if one girl wore a top without a bra one day, it was no big deal, but, if every girl ithout a bra every day, it would be disruptive In other words, we could wield a lot of power by joint action After that, ere able to get soh the student council”
“So is that what the DA’s Office is all about? Just more of yourto make your family crazy?”
“It’s debatable whether I drove them crazier than they drove me,” she muttered
“Ah”
“The DA’s Office is the first time I felt I had established an identity for myself apart frohter of philanthropists Jama, Noah the playboy”
“I see”
“Do you really?” she asked “At the DA’s Office, I was first and foremost Allison Whittaker, Assistant DA Many of the defendants in my cases hadn’t even heard of the Whittakers And, the other lawyers at the DA’s Office didn’t care whatin with everyone else to help dig us out from under the mountain of cases”