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“You forget I’m a lawyer.”
She stared at him. Back in high school she’d had a crush on him but he’d never noticed her, other than as his best friend’s little sister. But he had been eating at Jalisco’s every Saturday night for the past several weeks. She had started to wonder what that was about. The longer she thought about it the more she sensed a difference in how Zack treated her. Like a woman he was interested in? Or was that her imagination?
Probably.
Zack looked good, like he always did. He wore jeans, boots and a baby-blue button-down shirt. He hadn’t shaved in a day or two and the stubbled face gave him a little bit of a dangerous air. Dark, dangerous, sexy.
But he didn’t look like her conception of a lawyer.
“I had kind of forgotten that since you’re so involved with running the airport now. But I don’t see what you could do. Unfortunately, I gave Todd the absolutely perfect reason to fire me.”
“You could get the police involved.”
“Oh, sure. Because the jerk groped me? Thanks, but it’s not worth the trouble.”
“Your manager might feel differently if you threatened to go to the cops.”
It was a tempting thought. “No.” She shook her head. “No, I don’t want to do that. It won’t make a difference.”
“If you change your mind—”
“I won’t. But thanks.” She glanced at the door. She needed to get her shit together before Todd came in. She still had her pride and she wholeheartedly believed in the adage never let them see you cry. Right. No crying. She sucked in a deep breath, steeling herself against the overwhelming desire to lay her troubles at someone else’s feet.
“You’d better go,” she told Zack.
“Are you sure?”
“I’m sure. It’s only a part-time job. And not one that paid very well, either.” A part-time job that had made her life more difficult even as it gave her extra money. “It’s not like I was fired or laid off from my main job.” Thank God. If she lost her accounting job at Kelly Boots she didn’t know what she’d do. “Besides, I don’t want an audience when I get fired.”
“Well, if you won’t let me help as your lawyer, how about I go punch the jerk in the face?”
That made her laugh. “I appreciate the thought, but no.”
Zack took her hand and said, “I want you to know that I’m here for you if you need me.”
He sounded so sincere, so earnest. She didn’t doubt that he was. After all, she was Travis’s little sister. Of course he’d want to help her. “I, um—Thank you.”
“I mean it, Laurel. Anytime.” He squeezed her hand gently and left.
A couple of minutes later Todd opened the door and came into the room, closing the door behind him. He was smiling when he told her, “You’re fired.”
