House Woman by Adorah Nworah

Author:Adorah Nworah
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Unnamed Press

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The dive bar on 17th and Sansom with muted neon lights was the perfect distraction for Nna. He’d texted his closest coworkers – Matt from Antitrust, Kevin from IP, and Bode – and they had answered his call. The night was young. They were second years now so work could wait. Two shots of tequila to the brain and he’d started to forget about his anxiety. Around him Bode, Matt and Kevin knocked back their shots and pressed lime wedges in the cracked skin of their mouths.

Nna reached for his third shot.

‘Big Law has ruined us, bro,’ Matt guffawed, his tobacco-stained teeth glinting in the dark. ‘I’ll be lucky if I feel a buzz after three shots.’

‘Tell me about it,’ Nna yelled above the clamor of David Guetta. He surveilled the bar, his eyes narrowing on a pair of rounded behinds belonging to two black women who were leaning over a counter to ask a weary bartender for something sweet and strong.

‘Bro, focus!’ Kevin yelled at him, his eyes flitting between Nna’s face and the asses. Kevin’s admonishment earned him cheap laughter from the group. The women whipped their heads back to glare at Nna. Nna winked at the prettier one. Narrow face. Thick lips. Just like Ikemefuna.

‘Nna’s always on the lookout,’ Matt joked. He pronounced Nna as Nah. Nna grimaced. When he’d first joined the firm, he’d made a point of correcting every person who butchered his name, but he’d given up by the third month after he realized that his efforts were in vain. ‘Can’t take him anywhere.’

‘Remember when Ted made partner and he hosted us at his cabin in the Poconos for the weekend?’ Bode started, leaning closer to the other guys so they could hear him.

Faint memories of an alcohol-fueled blur flitted through Nna’s mind. A hell of a weekend. Ted’s sister was on the come up in New York, had walked the runway for Michael Kors or something. Ted put in a last-minute request and with her help, there’d been an excess of young, pretty women to impress. Every hotblooded Big Law recruit with a salvageable hairline made a note of pointing out to the women that although they were not quite New York sharks, the attorneys at the firm’s Philadelphia location worked on the same multibillion dollar financings as their New York counterparts.

‘Can we not talk about the Poconos?’ Kevin groaned.

‘What happens in the mountains stays in the mountains,’ Bode added.

‘Man, all I remember was Bode and Nna telling whats-hername, Kavia, remember her? Redhead with big tits …’ Matt started.

‘Kaviaaaaa,’ Bode groaned, his face in his palms.

‘I still have her number,’ Nna added, a sly grin forking across his lips. ‘Saved as Kavia with the Big Tits.’

‘Big teeth, you mean,’ Bode groaned, clutching his crotch.

‘… telling Kavia they made monthly donations to the Women’s Refugee Commission,’ Matt finished.

‘I swear I donated $30 the very next day,’ Nna yelled. ‘I can dig through my emails for proof.’

‘I mean, she made it clear she was a feminist.

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