The Firm's New Queen

d in suspicion. "Wh

e world tilted, but I forced it steady. "He was my mentor in law school. More importantly,

in Finn' s cold eyes. He was a

mation I held from my past life. "He' s speaking at a con

too broken to think this clearly. I had just cowered and wa

he terrified lawyers, the broken glass, the unconscious pa

of his largest men. "You two. Go with her. Ge

g in the air. It didn

nt a wave of dizziness through me, but I locked my knees and stood firm.

service corridor, and into a freight elevator. The ride down was silent a

ss suits, all wearing conference lanyards. My escorts didn't care. T

stage, basking in the applause. He looked exactly the same,

finally came out, surrounded

arc

into a warm smile when he saw

my lip, the disheveled state of my suit, and the t

asked, his tone shifting

one buzzed. He held up a hand

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m concern, to confusion, to disbelief, and finally, to

The warmth was gone, replaced by a look

oice dripping with condesc