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Chapter One

"Well?" Easton asked "What do you think?"

Hannah Donovan turned a slow circle in the sunlit reception area that took up one corner of the seventeenth floor of the Bank of Aress Her soon-to-be law partner, Easton Wallace, stood in front of her, a wide grin playing across his classically handsoirlfriend who had fast become a close friend of Hannah's, stood with her back to them in cut-off shorts and spiky blue hair, her hands pressed to the glass overlooking Austin's famous Sixth Street

"It's a this was real Were they actually looking at property to lease? For thattheir o firm?

She griiven notice at Brandywine Consulting where, until yesterday, she'd been gainfully eave notice, her prick of a boss had suggested that she go ahead and take her accrued vacation Basically kicking her out the door without even time for cupcakes in the break room

But that was okay Because now she was free as a bird A so a brand new adventure

A bird who didn't have the money she'd counted on to fund this little venture Because her pig of a forer a clause in her retire that she was absolutely forbidden to borrow from And if she closed it out completely and took the h to buy the whiskey in which to drown her sorrows

Whichat this fabulous office space without her share of the money for their ne firm's start-up capital Which, of course, included the down payment for this lease

And that was a fact she hadn't yet shared with Easton

Now his brow furrowed as he peered at her "You're way too quiet Do you not like it?"

Selma turned, her eyes wide "Of course she likes it She'd be an idiot not to like it"

"If I didn't, I'd hardly ad her worries Seled "And to be clear," Hannah continued, "I do love it I was--" She cut herself off with a shrug "I just can't believe it's happening so fast"