Lovers in law

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Authors: Exley Avis
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around me.
I inhaled deeply the imagined scent of her and decided to push my
luck.
    “You look exhausted,” I said.
“You’ve been staring at that screen for hours. May I buy you a
drink as a reward?” I made it sound like a casual invitation but I
was silently begging her to say yes.
    “ I don’t think that would be
a good idea, do you?” Allie stood up and stretched
again.
    Her body was long and
curvaceous with a perfect hourglass shape that would look so
beautiful against my white sheets.
    “Why not?” I asked. “It’s been a
long day. I’d like a glass of wine and I’d prefer not to drink
alone. Where’s the harm?”
    Allie’s eyes narrowed suspiciously,
as if they saw a great deal of harm indeed and I could see her
mentally weighing up the situation. “Where would we go?” she asked,
hedging her bets.
    I’d have preferred to take
her to my apartment to drink red wine from her navel but doubted
she’d go for the idea. I therefore suggested a bar a couple of
minutes walk from chambers.
    Catching me completely off guard,
Allie smiled that heart-splitting smile of hers and picked up her
jacket. “If that glass of wine could be accompanied by a bowl of
pasta, I might well take you up on your very kind offer.”
    My stomach tightened in
anticipation. I hadn’t expected her to want to make an evening of
it. “If you’d like dinner we can go somewhere more up-market.” I
had a favourite restaurant in mind where the food was excellent,
the service discreet and the meal always ended with a
seduction.
    Allie wasn’t falling for it
though.
    “The local bar’s fine,” she said,
zipping up her bag. “No harm at all in a couple of colleagues
having a drink at the end of a long day.”
    She stressed the word colleagues,
laying down the boundaries very clearly. I’d need to work extra
hard to talk my way around them. But I always rose to a challenge,
so to speak.
    The bar was already full of lawyers
winding down after a tough day in court and I acknowledged a couple
of my regular opponents. I saw Allie drew far more attention than
I’d ever commanded from my peers so I sent her to find us a table
while I bought the drinks.
    “Don’t often see you in here,” one
of my sparring partners said beside me. “And certainly not in such
good company.” He glanced back at Allie who’d found a table in the
far corner. The guy’s eyes were almost out on stalks as they
feasted on her curves. “Very nice indeed.”
    “She’s my instructing
solicitor,” I said, struggling not to sound territorial but
deliberately placing myself in his eye line. “We’re working on a
building negligence case. It comes to court next month.”
    “Well you’d have to be built of
stone not to notice the architecture on that woman.” He dodged
sideways so he could see Allie around me. “I’d get nothing done if
she were working with me.”
    “You know me. Never mix business
with pleasure.” I fobbed him off and ordered a bottle of very good
red wine, renowned for smoothing the way toward seduction.
    My fellow barrister laughed
cynically. “Even a workaholic, control freak like you would break
the rules for a woman like that.” He nodded towards my order. “And
before you argue the point, no one spends eighty quid on a bottle
of wine when it’s strictly business.”
    “They do when they pocket my level
of fees,” I retorted and smiled coldly at my less well paid
counterpart, unreasonably angered at being caught out. I also
didn’t appreciate his lecherous interest in Allie.
    I carried the wine and a couple of
menus over to her. She’d moved two chairs further back into the
alcove, making our corner surprisingly discreet.
    “I’m hiding from the old lech at
the bar,” she explained, nodding in the direction of the man I’d
just been talking to. “Men like that make me want to go home and
shower.”
    I sat down, realising I couldn’t
have been given a better opportunity to ask the questions that had
plagued me

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