A

e office," my assistant and my only friend in the cit

any idea who?

, oh," she squeaked, smiling. 'You have a visitor," I didn't n

he was, Victor Armani, CEO of Ar

y usual smile as I pla

he turned to loo

ew the answer to that question, "I already dropped the f

b with it. Brought the firm a lot of mon

ratulations and invite you for dinner," he sai

idea, Victor," I said as I

he said with one han

" I said, remembering everyth

and that will be all," I juggled wi

ner," I said,

walked over and kissed me on my cheek. I

. "Well, looks like persistence is the ke

I say stalking," I s

ing to do about

just one dinner. I have a lot o

. I can come babysit,"

d do that

our daughter loves me more," she waved her hands dramati

is yesterday," she said before

my father," I s

," she said with her accent tha

to take his position in a law firm I did

doing that. Are you?" She

well. How can you be sure that isn't your ex playing games,"

y father does. Even though he didn't

ng about it," she

about work and my dinner date with

to the ends of the earth," I smile

we met on our first day at the first. We clicked im

l and began going through it. I hate the fact my father's legacy ha

or the law. But I can't believe he had a clause that can

more I read, the more it felt like my father had writ

atthew

as i

ished before I could tell him, and I had made peace with that silence. Now, t

ed me out of

leave now, to get ready for you

at hung up on my wall. Damm, I have b

trying to gath

d I nodded. I rushed out of the office, and he

discussion, because of

just sell my shares and permanently cut

is the only way I can protect Ha

phone. As a lawyer to a lot of people I need to b

e stuck out to me. I rushed back to

eir recent client has just won the lawsuit against

happening in the firm. Can I close my

. My father's signature stared back at me from the bottom of

posed to stand for

at case they just lost? It wasn't just about sloppy lawyers. It was abou

were winning

g on the carpet, carefully bui

lowly, and tucked it

as about a firm I didn't even know I had a claim to, being

thing wa

away, they

als and destroy good people. And Hazel would grow up thi

o

t let tha

was too young. Too innocent. All she needed to kn

ned it to see Vic, standing

" she yelled slightl

r, I'm going back to New Yo

," she sa

't be happening. I have to go, I have to take what's mine. Not j

well. But if you are going, then I'm g

e I will need