Stone Cold by Winter Renshaw

Author:Winter Renshaw [Renshaw, Winter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Stone

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“Hey, hey.” Jovie stands in my office doorway Thursday, shortly before noon. With an emerald green pencil skirt, a starched white blouse, her hair slicked back into a low bun, and her lips shaded dark pink, I hardly recognize her and end up doing a double take. “I have something for you.”

She makes her way across the room, her hips swaying in the skintight fabric, and she places a plate of cookies on my desk along with an envelope.

“These are from Ida,” she says. “She really appreciates what you did for Domino. And I hope you like chocolate chip cookies … she said to tell you they’re the Alton Brown recipe, which is supposedly the best one. I may or may not have snuck one on the way here, so I may or may not be able to confirm that they’re life-changing.”

“I’ve never heard a cookie described as life-changing before.”

“Don’t take my word for it.” She slides the plate closer to me.

“I’m actually meeting a client for lunch today, but I’ll save these for a three o’clock pick me up.”

“That’s an impressive amount of discipline you’ve got there. I wouldn’t last ten minutes with these,” she says. “I do this thing sometimes where I stress bake. Usually when I’m nearing the end of a deadline, I do all kinds of crazy things to procrastinate … I’ll organize all of my closets, I’ll take a trip to the bookstore and come back with a stack of bestsellers that I definitely don’t have time to read, and then I’ll bake at least one cake or batch of cookies—that I end up throwing out half the time because if I don’t I’ll inhale the entire thing in one sitting.”

“Sounds like you have zero self-control.”

“Pretty much,” she says. “But only when I’m writing. When I’m not writing, I’m a pretty average, boring person.”

“I doubt that.”

“Okay, fine. Slightly less neurotic, slightly less manic, a little more in the driver’s seat.”

“Everything go well with Mike?” I ask. “What’d you think of him?”

“Yeah.” Her brows lift. “He’s great. Very knowledgeable … said he’s taken on similar cases to mine in the past …”

“Did he say if he’d take you on?”

“He said he would.”

I exhale. “Good, good.”

“He also told me that you were one of his best students,” she says. “And that you told him you couldn’t represent me due to a conflict of interest …”

“I didn’t want my representation of you to be biased in any way. The court tends to frown on that sort of thing.”

“I see,” she says. “Regardless, thank you. I’m so grateful for everything you’ve done for me lately.”

I nod. “Sure.”

“I should get out of your hair … just wanted to drop off Ida’s thank you cookies …” She glances at the door, though her high-heels remain planted. “Stone?”

“Yes?”

“I’m really glad our paths crossed again.”

“Can you please tell me why you terminated my client’s relationship—” Becca storms through the door, stopping in her tracks when she spots Jovie. Tugging her Oxford top into place, she clears her throat.

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