Some Like It Hot by Brenda Jackson

Author:Brenda Jackson [Jackson, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2006-04-11T14:00:00+00:00

Three

The restaurant was quiet, quaint, and upscale, and the aroma of French food reached Sydney as soon as they entered. She felt the heat of Tyrone’s hand in the center of her back when he touched her as they followed the waiter to their table. Just being with him made her appreciate being a woman.

“Would you like some wine?” Tyrone asked when they had been seated.

She wanted to tell him that she thought she needed something a bit stronger than wine, but refrained from doing so. “Yes, please.”

Tyrone gave the waiter their drink request. After the waiter returned with their drinks and they gave him their meal selections, Sydney eased back in her chair and relaxed somewhat. She noted Tyrone did the same.

“So, what else have you been doing since the weddings, other than winning court cases?” Although he’d asked her a rather simple question, the heat in his eyes almost unnerved her. She cleared her throat and took a sip of her wine, hoping the liquid would somehow calm her nerves and cool her insides. “That particular court case took up the majority of my time,” she finally found her voice to say. “It was a long, bitter battle and I’m glad we won.”

He nodded. “What type of case was it?” he asked with genuine interest.

Sydney appreciated his response. She really liked her job, and with everyone in her family being attorneys, it was hard for anyone to want to talk shop at the end of the day. Even Rafe, who was also an attorney, used to get annoyed when she’d tell him how her day went or attempt to discuss some of her court cases, just to get another opinion.

“It was a David versus Goliath case, a little woman going after a major corporation that dropped the ball and didn’t want to admit it. My client is a working mother of two girls, and for years she’d been tucking away money into one of these educational plans that guaranteed the money would be there when she needed it to fund her daughters’ college expenses. Well, when her daughter turned eighteen and applied to colleges, evidently some of the rules for dispersement had changed without my client being notified, which included the fact that now only certain colleges and universities fell under their umbrella. As far as I was concerned, it was an outright case of a conflict of interest, since the majority of those schools somehow benefited from the company in the long run, as well as the fact that none of the schools on that list were ones my client’s daughter wanted to attend. They made it seemed like she didn’t have a choice. As her attorney, I had to send a message out there that she did have a choice. If she had one when she took out the plan then she had one at the end, especially if their change of policy wasn’t dictated to her.”

Tyrone nodded. While she’d been talking, he’d kept his gaze glued to her mouth.

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