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Chapter Two

Sarah

Another sunny day, so I walked past the ceates Catechism Cataclysy” strea out within a week, and I was like a kid at Christ the calendar every few days toto plan

The legal firm I worked for didn’t really have a dress code, only the barestpreferred Basically, every day was casual Friday, which could be a real Godsend in the Nevada heat Hoould it look for the partners of Lewis and Brown to have eood at all My serious side insisted on a black skirt-suit Still, my practical side allowed for a much shorter shirt than I would usually wear and convinced me to leave my jacket at the office as I went out for lunch

The Sure Thing Graphics building was a lot fancier than raphic design I had over an hour for lunch, which I figured would be ample, even with the mountain of work piled on my desk—a problem it seemed my friend, Can fir’s fourth floor

The next client went up, and the lineup a seat at the back I pounced before anyone else could beat me to it—it was likely to be a while before Caet away To be fair, I was ten minutes early Punctuality was less of a social courtesy in ion

I busiedin the office This was the first time I had visited Cainally known each other fro Graphics was really was quite lovely Originally open concept, it had an elaborate cubical far by the size of them There were also two rooms off to either side One looked like it was a boardroo it as such The other had a table at the center of the roo in an office so fun

My phone started buzzing, and I dove to get it out ofphone could be I figured it had the saic as a baby’s cries, you can’t stand it because you’re not supposed to be able to The noise all but guaranteed i else

Even on my lunch break, I was not entirely safe from my supervisor The call was to reet back to work on time because they really needed all hands on deck I assured her that I did not, in fact, have the corader and knew full well the situation ere in My bosses didn’t know, but going into legal aid after graduation was, if anything, an act of rebellion As well as an attempt to try and redress the balance The type of people who tended to go to law school was just the kind of silver-spoon, trust-fund babies I had hung hen I was younger Seeing the other side was a real wake up call

The call lasted so long I was alet e on par with traversing the Klondike by dog-sled Caured I was pretty safe I glanced atout of batteries Focused on waiting for an opening to hang up, I didn’t even see him come out of his office

“What can I help you with?”

I looked up at the hottest man I had ever seen He had the muscles of a bodybuilder, and the taste in fashion of a movie star—all with a face that was ht azed into them, it was like I could tell this man had a depth of passion, and life had let hi about that look that er