A Billionaire Lawyer Series, Darling Boss ( Book 4) - An Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Mya Grey

Author:Mya Grey [Grey, Mya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Dirty Secret

Gale Fears

“Right, so I have a list of every girl who has filed a report against Merrick,” Hillary was saying. “The bad news is that the list isn’t very long. A lot of the cases were handled before they could even be filed. By that, I mean that the girls and their families were threatened or bribed into silence. Some of them pushed past the threats and still filed a report, only for the charges to be eventually dropped. No need to guess why. He probably threatened the lives of their loved ones. Either way, there isn’t much to go on.”

“You know what we can do?” Seth said. “We could do a collective case. We can talk to these girls and agree to file the case on their behalf and fight it. Multiple plaintiffs will strengthen the case. Instead of just Avery fighting this case, it could be every girl Merrick has abused. Or every girl who is willing to testify they were abused. It should help in convincing them to testify.”

“It won’t be easy,” Hillary said. “They are all terrified of him. I won’t be surprised if he actually sent his goons to threaten and maybe even rough up the family members to get the girls to drop charges. We need to be mentally prepared that this might not work. We should have another plan ready.”

“Of course,” Seth said, with a scoff. “We are all highly accomplished lawyers. We don’t need a secretary to tell us that.”

“Do you need a secretary to tell you that there’s mustard on your tie?” she asked sweetly, forcing a fake smile on her face. “Or does the accomplished lawyer know that as well?”

He looked down and cursed before quickly wiping the stain off his tie. I got a sudden urge to laugh and managed to disguise it as a cough. Wouldn’t want to ruffle the feathers of one of my best employees, even if he was a bit of an ass.

“Would you like me to do anything else, Mr. Fears?” she asked.

“Nothing, for now, Hillary,” I said. “Later, I would like to discuss the list in detail with you.”

She nodded and got up, shooting Seth a disdainful look, and walked away. I wiped the smile off my face and returned to the meeting at hand.

My phone rang. Stella was calling me. I clenched my hand in anger and picked it up.

“Stella,” I said.

“I hope you are taking me out for a date tonight,” she said. “I am in the mood for some fine dining.”

“I am busy,” I said.

“Busy?” she whispered. “Too busy for your girlfriend? How could this be? I mean, we wouldn’t want everyone finding out about our little secret, now would we?”

I gritted my teeth and said, “I will see you tonight.”

I couldn’t take it anymore. Stella demanded to be taken on dates, and I hated being with her. I hated her company. I hated everything about her that used to attract me. I wanted to tear my hair out every time I was with her.

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