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“It was just a disagreeie,” she says in an atte of her hands in her lap give her away

“So I’ve heard But any time you scream at so screw up’… well, I need to delve a little deeper, you see?”

Lorraine just nods her head at hter in an atte

Putting ers in front of htfully I don’t dare look at Mac and take my attention off Lorraine This has now becoether… you had a hearing this ?”

“Yes,” she says hesitantly

“And you couldn’t find the Order the judge was supposed to sign?”

“Yes ” This time softer

“And you assumed that McKayla had failed to draft the Order and put it in the file?”

“I couldn’t find it while I was in court—”

I holdher mouth shut

“Yet the Order was, in fact, in there?”

“It appears so,” Lorraine grits out

None of this was hard to figure out I put together Lorraine yelling, papers all over the office, Mac handing an Order to Lorraine, and then Lorraine looking like she was going to puke This was all a no-brainer but I continue, wanting Mac to understand I will always get someone to spill the beans

“So, you went into McKayla’s office and slarees to

fall and break?”

“Yes ”

“And then you screa to draft the Order?”

“Yes,” she says, her voice nohisper

“And then yelled that she was a ‘fucking screw up’?”

“Perhaps I was a bit hasty—”