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behind her as she escaped inside. When she rested against the door, her hand on her chest as she tried to still her floundering heart, she noticed Mansi and the attendant looking at her oddly.
    “What was that?” she asked as she sat upright from her former relaxed posture.
    Jameela looked back thought the rectangular glass in the door and hurried over to Mansi. “You wouldn’t believe who I just saw out front? Al-Hafeez!” she continued before the woman had a chance to even guess.
    Mansi looked excitedly at the door and then at Jameela. “He’s here?” she asked and perked up even further.
    “Don’t get so excited. I just hope he is gone by the time we leave. I don’t want to be in his company any further than I have to. The man unnerves me.”
    “I can see that,” Mansi replied and smiled.
    Jameela settled back into her chair and allowed the woman to finish her treatment. The remainder of the time she was there was characterized by anxiety. She couldn’t control the rush of blood in her veins as she thought about him, and when it was time to leave she was nerve wrecked.
    “What would be so bad about running into him?” Mansi asked. “Just say hi and keep walking. That wouldn’t kill you, right?”
    “Right,” Jameela agreed. But as she rounded the bed and the exit sign came into view, so did Al-Hafeez. He stood then and walked directly to her.
    “I thought that was you before,” he told her, and then smiled and nodded politely at Mansi.
    “He doesn’t seem so bad,” Mansi whispered to Jameela from the corner of her mouth.
    Jameela rolled her eyes and forced her attention to the man. She believed in looking people directly into the eyes when speaking, but she found it hard to do so with Al-Hafeez. “I come here from time to time,” she told him.
    “May I have a word?” he asked her, implying Mansi should make herself scarce.
    “I’ll wait in the car,” she told Jameela, taking the obvious hint.
    Al-Hafeez waited until she was out of earshot and then turned to Jameela. “I’ve been meaning to talk with you but every time I’ve phoned the office you were out. I’m glad I ran into you now.”
    “What is the matter? Has something else happened regarding the case I should know about?” She was now concerned for her legal reputation.
    “No, there hasn’t been any new development. I just thought that I had you wrong. I have never been in this situation, nor am I accustomed to leaving my fate in the hands of someone I don’t know.”
    “It would seem as if leaving it in your hands wasn’t such a good idea either,” she replied mockingly.
    Al Hafeez laughed, and the sound of his laugher struck her hard and deep and reverberated inside her. A feeling came over her she was unfamiliar with, and she began to grow unsteady standing before him. “You may be right about that. I did mess up bad,” he told her. “I was uncomfortable being defended by a woman who seemed too fragile and weak to keep me out of jail…hold on…” he said and chuckled when he saw Jameela’s face coloring. “I was wrong. I saw how you handled the DA and I was impressed, so I thought maybe we should start over.”
    “Thank you,” Jameela replied and blushed. “So how do we do that?”
    “Well, I was wondering if you would give me the pleasure of going with me to dinner?”
    His question took Jameela by surprise. “I don’t think that’s a good idea for me to fraternize with you,” she replied.
    “It’s not fraternizing. Think of it as still being on the clock,” he told her. “If it makes you feel any better, we could just discuss the case.”
    Jameela found he would not take no for an answer, so she eventually agreed. He would pick her up at her apartment at seven. She nodded and walked off to greet an overly excited Mansi.
    “So? What was that about?” she asked.
    “He asked me out to dinner,” Jameela reluctantly volunteered.
    “See, I knew it,” Mansi replied and glued her eyes on Jameela for