My Bossy Billionaire Attorney: Enemies to Lovers Office Romance by Gianna Evers

Author:Gianna Evers [Evers, Gianna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Savannah

Alice pulls out the chair for me to sit, and I give a polite, thankful nod.

“Thank you for agreeing to see me. I didn’t think you’d pick up my call or agree to meet me here,” Alice says.

I purse my lips. I didn’t want to. I would have been fine sitting at home, curled up in a ball, thinking about my life, or making calls to people I know who had some sort of relationship with Brandon.

But my life is in shambles. I never had many friends, but I had my colleagues at work, and we would occasionally have lunch together from time to time. Since the first trial, it’s been me. Me against the world, me on my own with nobody except Michael to turn to. Since we’ve established that sex isn’t happening again, I know to keep an emotional distance, too.

It’s been a week. A long, exhausting week.

When he has something important, he calls me. I only call when I have concerns related to work or my case. So, when Alice called and asked if I wanted to get some air and meet with her, it was the only source of light in my dreadful existence.

“You’re welcome,” I reply.

“What would you like?”

“Just water,” I say.

She makes a series of hand gestures to the wait staff before returning to me.

“Okay. First off, how are you?” She seems genuine.

I sigh. “Do you want to know how I am because you feel guilty about sleeping with my ex, who is now dead, or are you asking because you want to act like you care?”

Alice bites her bottom lip, and watching them quiver, I feel guilty immediately.

“I’m sorry,” I reach out. “I shouldn’t have said that. Yes, you are a shitty person, and I still haven’t forgiven you for what you did, but you’re the only person who has asked me how I am. I don’t know how to respond properly.”

She smiles and shrugs. “It’s okay. I am not asking you, so you forgive me or tell me your worries. It’s just hard to sit back and do nothing because we were once close friends and I miss that. But if I can help—I’d like that. I don’t want anything in return.”

I exhale loudly. Never for once did I think I would come to trust the person who betrayed me, but I sense nothing but sincerity in Alice’s tone. That is if I can look past the part that can’t stop thinking of her in bed with Brandon.

“I’m terrible. I’m sure you know they claim they found the murder weapon in my house. I don’t know how it got there, but it shows one thing—that someone is trying to frame me, and it’s got to be someone that either I know or who knows me.”

She gasps. “You think it was planned? Like, the murder and then framing you? That they thought about blaming you before they killed Brandon?”

I nod, taking the glass of water from the staff.

I take a sip. “Yeah. I think so.

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