Resisting the Lawyer: Office Friends to Lovers Suspense Romance (Dirty Hot Resistance Series Book 3) by Emelia Blair

Author:Emelia Blair [Blair, Emelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-22T18:30:00+00:00

Debra’s shop is bigger on the inside than one would think.

There are all sorts of lovely dresses hanging on racks and sketches posted on the walls.

Lucas is seated on one of the fancy plush couches, watching me being poked and prodded by his sister. There’s another woman standing on the side, watching me. She’s a tall brunette and was introduced as Debra’s friend. Grace.

“You don’t have to go to all this trouble, Debra,” I beg. “I can just get something off the rack.”

“Nonsense.” Debra ignores my pleading. “Do you want something to drink? Grace, get some champagne in her.”

Grace just laughs silently at my predicament and hands me a bubbling flute, advising, “It will be easier if you bear this in silence. The more you protest, the more champagne she’ll make you drink.”

The glint in Debra’s eyes makes me close my eyes in hopelessness.

We’ve been here for two hours and she’s made me try on incomplete dresses, making adjustments on them.

Lucas has busied himself with playing with Sophie, studiously ignoring my silent cries for help.

“A hem of silver would go nicely,” Debra muses, loudly.

Then one of the shop attendants immediately brings forward large but delicate laces of shimmering silver.

Debra sits down on the ground choosing from the many options and starts hemming it at the bottom of the midnight blue dress I’m wearing.

“Debra, you have a wedding in three days. You really don’t have to do this.”

She just gives me an absentminded smile, pats me on my butt, and keeps hemming.

It takes us another two hours to finally be done with it and Debra kicks us out, promising to have the dress sent to me on Friday.

Disorientated, I blink owlishly at the shut door of the shop.

Lucas chuckles. “She’s stressed out over the wedding and she needed to do something other than obsess over it. She needed this more than you realize.”

Sophie is in a small stroller for a change and since it’s evening and his home is close by, Lucas invites me over for dinner.

I hesitate.

So without the blink of an eye, he instead suggests picking up some takeout and taking it to my place instead.

The transition is effortlessly smooth and before I know it, we are entering my apartment, with bags of steaming Thai food.

I prepare Sophie for bed and Lucas offers to change her while I empty the food into dishes.

By the time I’m done, I find him in her room. He’s put her in her crib and is talking to her in a low, soothing voice.

She has her fist in her mouth as she blinks tiredly at him.

I watch them for a few minutes.

Lucas is resting his folded arms on the raised part of the railings of the crib as he looks down at Sophie.

I’ve never worried about raising Sophie alone. But right now, I do find myself thinking that it would be nice to have someone to share this experience with. Not just anyone…just Lucas.

Not just for Sophie, but a partner for myself with whom I can share Sophie’s achievements, her joys, her tears.

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