Desperate Measures by Elle Casey

Author:Elle Casey [Casey, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elle Casey

Chapter 21

ELIZABETH INCORPORATED THE INFORMATION SENT over from Aimee into the pro forma financials she’d been working on for the past few hours. Things were looking really good. Now all she needed to know was the rental amount of the location and she’d be done with this first draft. She was distracted from formatting the reports she was going to print by a text on her phone.

GOT TIME FOR A COFFEE?

It was her cousin, Marcus. “Awesome,” she said out into the empty apartment.

YES. COME ON OVER. She pushed ‘send’ on her phone, and before she could put it back down on the table, her doorbell rang.

She opened the door to find Marcus standing on her front step with his phone in his hand and a big smile on his face.

“Hello, gorgeous!” he said brightly, walking up to give her a little hug. It was more the type of hug you’d get from a girlfriend than a male cousin, but she was used to it.

“Hello, Marcus. Don’t you look dapper today.” He was wearing a tweed jacket with a burgundy bow tie, his hair slicked down neatly, instead of flying all over for a change. “You look good in tweed.”

“I do, don’t I? This is my new style. I’m going for the academic look. What do you think?”

“Well … you’re a lawyer … so I’m not sure why you’d want to go for the academic look but … ”

“Because, sweet pea, I’ve accepted a position at UCF as an adjunct professor, and I need to fit the part.”

“Marcus, that’s great! When did you decide to do that?” Marcus had been a divorce lawyer for many years and did some business law work for a few select clients as well. He’d been good enough to answer her questions over the course of her accounting career about things concerning her clients, and she’d returned the favor by doing his taxes.

“I’ve always wanted to do this.” He didn’t meet her eyes when he answered, instead taking a little too much interest in a nearby potted plant.

Elizabeth eyed him suspiciously, closing the door behind him. “That’s funny. I don’t recall hearing you mention it before.” She and Marcus were pretty close. And he had a tendency to go off on different life tangents for the express purpose of chasing tail. Male tail, that is.

“Fine. You’ve sussed me out. There was this totally gorgeous hunk of a professor who made a visit over to the office, and it just got me thinking …”

“Thinking what?” she laughed. “That you’d put on a jacket with elbow patches, get a job over there, and land yourself a hot date for Friday night?”

“No. But is there anything wrong with that? I mean, seriously. What do you expect me to do? Internet date? Go on Rent-a-nob dot com? I don’t think so.” He brushed some imaginary lint off of his lapel.

Elizabeth rubbed his upper arm, soothing his ruffled feathers and trying really hard not to laugh. “No. No one expects that of you.

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