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"KINGSLEY, ARE YOU even listening to lancing around his still-empty strip club Was there any place in the world ie glared at him from across the table
"I’m a lawyer Specifically, your lawyer"
"Then, no, I’hed and ran her hands through her hair She was one of the highest paid and ht now she looked like a beautiful if exasperated ex-lover in a dark red suit Which she also was
"You re me seven-hundred dollars an hour for this conversation?" she asked hi on the floor in irritation
"Now I’ie capped her pen and tapped her legal pad with the end
"Nothing," she said "Unfortunately There is no organization in the city that works slower than the health departood day?"
"No, it’s not a good day," Maggie said, ripping off a sheet of paper and tossing it in the air He did always adore her dramatics "All the paperwork is ‘in process,’ which is their fancy way of saying ‘we are doing nothing with this case, so sit there and shut up’ You sley stretched out his legs, threw his feet on to the seat of the chair next to Maggie, and crossed his boots at the ankle
"It’s possible"
"Oh, I know it’s possible I used to sleep with you, rethe only people I know are other lawyers, and I’"
Kingsley narrowed his eyes at her He’dundercover assignment in Manhattan Older, rich, well-respected and powerful, Maggie was also a sexual subht on her hands and knees for aburn for two ht
"You miss me, don’t you?" he asked her
"No"
"Do you think if I hadn’t gone back to France, we still would be together?" he asked
"Kingsley?" Maggie reached across the table and snapped her fingers in his face "Pay attention Your club has been closed for aand why?"