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You’ve always been fierce about employees signing NDAs.
Even before this shit with Ava.
Given this sudden, drastic change in attitude, I think it’s a reasonable question.
Fuck off.
If you’ve slept with her, I need to know. As your lawyer, I need to be able to protect you. If you’d brought me into the loop with Ava, before things got serious, I could have helped.
Fuck.
Off.
I’m serious.
So am I.
Okay then, as your friend.
I’m worried. This isn’t like you. Even with Ava, you had an NDA.
You’re the one who hired her. You’re the one who refused to fire her when I came to you last week.
Is that supposed to make me less worried that my best friend and most important client is acting out of character?
Fine.
No, I didn’t sleep with her.
Okay. Then why not just tell me that?
Because it’s a stupid fucking question.
I just don’t want her to be afraid of me.
Despite what Ava thinks, I’m not an insensitive monster.
I thought we agreed Ava was the monster.
Also, I’m not burning the NDA. But I think she has a sister she’s close to. I will amend the NDA to give her permission to discuss you and her employment with her sister, contingent on the sister also signing an NDA.
As though I didn’t stand by and watch his previous girlfriend, who had a NDA, bad mouth him all over late night just because she’d insisted on a clause about the NDA not interfering with her job. Because apparently when you’re a shitty actress, the only reason people invite you on talk shows is to get gossip about your rich boyfriend.
So I write up an NDA for Trinity to sign so that Savannah has someone to talk to. I send my paralegal over to her office on campus for her signature. While I’m waiting for a response, I drink Pepto Bismol like I’m a teen doing shots over spring break.
This should be it, right? The thing that brings Trinity back into my orbit.
Instead the NDA comes back. Signed, witnessed, and notarized. And I hear nothing.
thirteen
MARTIN
The only warning I get that Trinity has shown up is a frantic message from Kendra.
Hey, boss. There’s someone here who says she needs to see you, but she doesn’t have an appointment.
Do you want me to send her away?
