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could pretend that my elevated heart rate was from exercise and not from the idea of what was going to happen to me when Calvin found out I had gone over his head.
    The light was on in Kathryn's office and the door was open. I wasn't expecting that. I had thoroughly planned on just sliding the file under the door and scurrying away. My name was on the files, but I certainly wasn't ready to go in front of one of the nation's leading lawyers. The woman sitting at that desk was one of my personal heroes. I was terrified that she would find my work wanting.
    I stood for a moment of indecision until I remembered Aiden saying he didn't think I'd be a lower level employee for long. I had gold-plated information. I had everything to gain from giving it to her and nothing to lose. If a stranger who had known me for five minutes thought I could be something, then I had no reason not to at least hand the file to her.
    I knocked on the open door, buoyed by Aiden's words before I could talk myself out of it. “Ms. McDonald?”
    An imposing woman looked up from her desk. Her blonde hair was graying, but instead of making her look old, it made her look distinguished. She had her glasses perched on the tip of her nose as she read over a document in her hand. She was exactly what I thought a lawyer should look like and everything I wanted to become.
    “Yes?” Kathryn McDonald responded, sounding slightly annoyed at the intrusion. A hot sweat spread out on my stomach and the palms of my hands. Maybe I should have just left the file for Calvin.
    “Ms. McDonald, I'm Lena Masterson- a paralegal downstairs...” I fumbled with my words. I had no idea what I was doing up here, let alone talking to the head partner of the firm.
    “And?” Ms. McDonald blinked slowly at me, waiting for me to stop talking gibberish.
    “I'm sorry to bother you- I just came across, I mean I found...” I stopped and took a deep breath, trying to center myself. Aiden had thought I could do this. I began again. “I found some information that will win you the Preston case.”
    “A bold claim,” Ms. McDonald said as she set her reading down. I had her complete attention now and I started to shake. “Let me see it.”
    I nearly tripped as I hurried over to her desk to hand her the file. “I printed the relevant pictures, but the original screen shots are on the USB as well as the-”
    “Where did you find these?” Ms. McDonald cut me off.
    “On the myFace pages of the plaintiff's friends. He was smart enough to un-tag himself so they didn't show up on his personal page, but several of his friends have all their pictures set to public view. I recognized him as soon as I saw them.” I swallowed hard. I had been expecting her to smile, but so far she was just watching me with a perfect, unemotional lawyer mask.
    “Why didn't the attorney I had assigned to this find these?” she asked, holding up a file from her desk. I recognized it as the file I had delivered to Calvin earlier in the day from Alexa.
    “I'm not sure, ma'am,” I said quietly. Ms. McDonald's sharp green eyes flashed up at me. She didn't believe me. She tossed Alexa's thin file down on her desk and picked mine up again, evaluating the contents.
    “Why didn't you bring this to Calvin? I don't usually have paralegals bringing me their findings directly.” She turned a page and looked it over. I really hoped I hadn't missed any spelling errors.
    “He isn't here and he didn't answer his phone,” I said carefully. I didn't want to get him in trouble, but Kathryn McDonald deserved to know the truth. Her eyebrows raised slightly and displeasure flickered across her green eyes. Calvin was going to have a bad day tomorrow. “I thought the discovery was important enough that it should get to you tonight. Before you meet with the clients in the morning.”
    “You're LTM5?” she asked, pointing to my initials at the bottom of the page. The computer automatically printed the user's initials on