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Chapter One

One drink Just one drink

Then Cassandra Blaire could return home and cozy up with case files, like she really needed to be doing tonight Instead, she’d let her secretary Stephanie convince her into a blind date with soiven she’d spent the last three years since her husband’s death focusing on work and not her social life

Sure, she went out now and then… Okaysomeone else’s needs, for ten years It was time to see to her own desires, and really the only desire she had currently was to win this Cooper case so she could alter the successful criminal practice her husband had built into a fa toit up with a stranger

But she’d committed, and she couldn’t back out now Stephanie would never let her hear the end of it

Cassie glanced up at the twinkling Christhts strewn across the popular restaurant’s front entrance One glass of wine She could excuse herself after Besides, the little bit of alcohol ht unwind so with her legal adversary grew

She shoved open the car door to a blast of cold winter air, set a black heel on the parking lot’s asphalt, and clith of her black skirt over her rear and approached the entry Loud laughter blended with Christmas carols as she stepped inside

“Good evening, reeted her warmly “Did you have a reservation?”

Cassie forced a wide smile “Jefferson For two?”

The wouest book A crinkle appeared in her brow as she turned the page “Jefferson, you said?”

“Uht o’clock”