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next case. Lorraine’s mouth is set into a grim line
by the time they are finished, although she does get a tiny bit
cheerful when he points out the cases that I’m to work on
underneath her. It’s apparently a happy day for her that she
will still have a little bit of control over me.
    “Lorraine…
you can go ahead and get back to work while I talk to McKayla about
her brain injury case.”
    Lorraine opens her
mouth to say something, but she can tell by the look on Matt’s
face that her time in his presence today is at an end. She grabs her
files and leaves.
    Matt pinches the
bridge of his nose with a sigh. “Is she always like that?”
    “Yeah,”
I say with a heavy heart.
    “Well, if you
have any problems with her, just let me know.”
    “Not going to
happen,” I tell him assuredly.
    His eyebrows raise,
and his lips quirk at me. “Excuse me?”
    “I can handle
Lorraine on my own. I won’t be running to you if I have an
issue.”
    Matt opens his mouth
to argue, I can just tell, but I stare at him with a look that says
the subject isn’t open for discussion. His mouth snaps shut,
and he shrugs his shoulders. “Suit yourself.”
    He then proceeds to
grill me about my case, but I know it forward and backward. I can’t
tell if he’s impressed or not when I tell him about how I
proved the headlights were on. He merely grunts and nods his head,
but I imagine compliments don’t come often from someone like
Matt.
    After I finish, he
says, “You know this case is a major uphill battle.”
    “Yeah…
I sort of figured that out when seven other law firms turned it
down.”
    “Then why did
you take it?”
    I hate to admit
this, especially to a high-powered lawyer like Matt, but no sense in
hiding it. “I just really liked Miranda and Larry Jackson. I
felt sorry for them, and they remind me of my parents. Strong,
hardworking… they didn’t deserve this, and their life
has been ruined because of it. I know those are stupid reasons to
take a case.”
    Matt stares at me
for a moment, his face unreadable. He’d make a great poker
player. But I also remember him that night we were together and all
of the emotions I read across his face. Desire, passion, lust. He
wasn’t masking anything then.
    Finally, he says,
“Those are stupid reasons to take a case. For you to
even have a chance, you’ll have to hire a really good accident
reconstructionist, and you’ll need to have expert medical
witnesses, plus a biomechanical engineer. This case will probably
cost a good fifty grand just to get it in the courtroom.”
    A biomechanical
engineer? An accident reconstructionist? I have no clue what he’s
talking about, and I’m so out of my league here.
    My heart sinks,
because I doubt there’s any way in hell that Matt will agree to
front that type of money on what is probably a loser case. Yet I
don’t know what I’ll do if he tries to make me get rid of
it. I suppose I could leave, and go out on my own… get a loan
or something to fund the case.
    Matt interrupts my
thoughts. “Those reasons may be stupid, but it doesn’t
mean they aren’t the right reasons. Sometimes you take stupid
risks in this business, just because you happen to really like the
client.”
    “So we can
keep the case?” I ask, hope coursing through me.
    Matt can hear it in
my voice, and he can’t help but to smile fully at me. “Yeah.
I’ll fund this case. But it’s going to be a monster.
You’re going to need me to help you with it.”
    “Absolutely,”
I say with excitement, having to restrain myself from running around
the room in a victory lap.
    I’m even
betting now that I have the Great Litigator God, Matt Connover, on
this case, the insurance company will start quaking in their boots. I
can’t wait to tell Larry and Miranda, although sadly, Larry
will just forget.
    Matt goes over a few
more things that I need to do to get the ball rolling on the expert
witnesses we’ll need, and then he sends me packing so he can
take another