Chapter 6

I breathe a sigh of relief as soon as they leave. The paparazzi snapped pictures of the couple as they exited the building and a bunch of accusations were thrown at them. You could hear the paparazzi yelling about their divorce and if it was because "Anna was cheating" or that "Alex had found a new woman." As soon as they left the paparazzi left too.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around what I just got myself into, and on top of that I'm left worrying about the stupid heart pain that randomly crept in and out during our meeting. Maybe I was just tired. I should go to the doctor and get myself checked out. I haven't gone for a while for my regular checkups and perhaps the pain was because of the pile of cases I had worked on and the associated stress.

I pick up my phone and page Aaliyah, desperately needing coffee.

A couple minutes later there is a knock on my door and in enters an excited Aaliyah. "Here's your coffee Sarah!"

Aaliyah hands me the cup of coffee the warmth from the cup and the delicious smell making me melt into my chair.

"Gosh thank you so much! You have no clue how desperately I need this." I said taking a big gulp.

"Careful it's hot!" Aaliyah exclaims. "Taking about hot..." she pauses. "That eye contact between you and Mr. Adair was something eh. I felt that electricity up to my arms." She smirks itching her arms for the extra effect.

I stare at her with my mouth hanging wide open. If I was swallowing my coffee right now I would have had it out of my nose.

"Aaliyah what are you talking about?" I exasperate. "He's with someone else...why would he possibly be into me and this is a professional client to client relationship."

"What do you mean he's with someone else. He's here for a divorce isn't he? Which means that he's gonna be single and ready to mingle." She says batting her eyelashes at me. "And don't worry about professionalism, I'm not telling anyone." She winks.

Right. Aaliyah doesn't know what happened. I need to tell her anyway since she's my paralegal and will be in charge of documents.

"There's something I need to tell you." I whisper ushering her to close the door and sit down.

She looks confused but does what I say and quickly sits back down.

"What's wrong?" She whispers.

I draw in a long breath ready to tell her this rollercoaster of a case. "Okay so Mr. Adair...."

As I finish, Aaliyah sits speechlessly in her seat. If you could look at Aaliyah right now you would be wondering if she got hit by a truck. She looks shocked and upset.

"What are you thinking?" I question taking a sip of my now cold coffee.

"Wow! What....how?" She stutters. "So, he's not going to be single and ready to mingle with you?"

I choke on my coffee sending me in a series of violent coughs.

"Omg Aaliyah are you on drugs or something! From the entire story, your worried about his relationship status and my love life!" I cough tossing my empty coffee cup in the recycling bin.

"Whatttt." She whins. "I really thought there was something or could be something between you two. I mean I wanted him to myself but you two look beautiful together. And let's not forget about how he saved you from falling two days ago."

I stare at her and all I say is "He looks good with me cuz I'm gorgeous, and he's the one who bumped into me in the first place so he better have saved me." And we both burst out laughing.

"I love it when your sassy, and yes, your drop dead gorgeous girl and he's drop dead handsome. Yes, it was his fault that you almost got your butt wet, but there's more to it."

"Like what?" I ask raising my eyebrows.

"It's a hunch that I have, but after our next meeting with Mr. Adair and Anna I'll let you know if it was confirmed or not."

A hunch? Yeah, she lost it. As a lawyer I didn't see anything like that between us and I shouldn't as well.

"Okay you do that." I say turning my attention back to the laptop. "Anyways, this needs to look as real as possible which means that you can't tell that this is fake. If anyone comes up to you, just ignore it. The media usually thinks that when you ignore what their saying then it's real."

"Yes ma'am." She salutes.

I know I should have consulted this with the couple, but as I said I wasn't going to let him boss me around. I've dealt with both high profile cases before and the press so this wasn't new to me. Until I find the right moment, we can't utter a single thing about the case.

"Thanks girl. Can you get me the file for the Troper case we need to go through the notes together."

"I'll bring that right in." And with that she quickly races out of my office.

I wonder what she meant when she said it's a hunch. What was she thinking? Why did she think that? I have a gazillion questions, but no time to think. I have another case due soon in court and I need to work on that. Shaking the thoughts out of my head I refocus on the Troper case.

Aaliyah walks in with the file and we get right on to discussing every detail. After two hours of tirelessly working out the details my head begins to hurt. Looking at the clock it's almost 8:30pm and I think it's time to call it a day. 

"We are definitely good to go for this case, I'll give Mr. Troper one last call and tell him the court details." Says Aaliyah taking the files. "You should go home you had a long day today."

She was right I had a long day today and this weird sensation in my chest tired me out more.

"Yeah, I think I'm going to pack up and head out for the day. Are you all good?"

"All good here girl! I'll see you tomorrow then!" Aaliyah gives me a hug before leaving and I didn't realize how much I needed one.

Gathering my stuff, I head out and as soon as I exit the building the cool autumn air fans across my face. A wave of relaxation goes through my body as I breathe it in. The sky is already black with twinkling stars scattered across. A lot happened today and I all I want is to just eat and sleep.

Once I get home, I see that my mom left me dinner with a 'good night sweetie' note. Those notes always make me smile from the inside and were much needed especially when I would come home late on days when my mom would be gone to bed early.

I quickly run upstairs, shower and change into my pajamas. I peak into my moms room and see her sound a sleep. I give her a quick kiss on the forehead and run to the yummy food that was calling my name. Warming the food my phone begins to ring.

It's Aaliyah.

"Hey girl is everything okay?" I ask taking my plate out of the microwave and sitting down at the table.

"Hey! Yeah everything is fine. I just wanted to say something."

"Say what?" I ask taking a bite of my delicious food.

"ALEXANDER ADAIR!" She screams.

Startled, I drop my fork on the ground. "AALIYAH!" I yell back at her. "I swear I will block your number if you do this again." I laugh grabbing the fork and tossing it in the sink.

"NEVER!" She yells laughing sinisterly.

"Okay BYE!" and I can hear her saying "wait no" but I hang up before she can say anything else.

If this case isn't going to kill me, Aaliyah will with her dream of shipping me and Adair together.

I quickly stuff my mouth with food sleep starting to now over come me and the last thing I want is to sleep at the table.

Trudging up to my room after having filled my belly, I fall into bed and a huge sigh escapes my lips. "Now this is heaven." I breathe.

I snuggle into my blanket and shut my eyes hoping for a good night sleep. Drifting off to sleep, I'm taken into a world of wild dreams, and little did I know that it would include the tall, dark and handsome, Alexander Adair.