“Moan and whine for the rest of today if you have to,” Sandy was telling Nina across town, “but that’s all the time you get. You have an appointment tomorrow at ten.”
“Oh?” Nina had started to pick at her salad. The afternoon sun, reflecting off the lake outside, blazed into the office, warming her face. She tried to yawn, wishing she could nap for just a few minutes and forget the mountain of financial trouble she was in, but exhausted and tired were two different things. She felt exhausted but wired.
“New business,” Sandy said.
“Sandy, no…”
“Something big.” She was sitting very still, wearing her most deadpan expression.
She was up to something.
“ Sandy, tomorrow’s a long way away to me right now. I have a lot of decisions to make. Even if I could afford it, I can’t consider getting all wrapped up in another horrible case…”
“You’re going to love it,” she said.
And as she spoke, something stirred inside Nina, a familiar feeling, that little thrill.
What the hell, she thought.
She took her feet off the desk, straightened up, and picked up a yellow pad.
“Lay it on me, Sandy.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PERRI O’SHAUGHNESSY is the pen name for two sisters, Pamela and Mary O’Shaughnessy, who live in California. Pamela, a trial lawyer for sixteen years, graduated from Harvard Law School. Mary is a former writer and editor of multmedia projects. They are the
