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2024-10-29 19:42:56Three days back in the office and he had not heard anything about the case. He expected the verdict any minute now. Though he knew that it would be a few after it was read. An hour after he finished his class, he was back in the office, going over the papers in front of him. He had stacks of them everywhere. They were the first assignment for the different classes he had. He still thought he would be able to read them at some point, but he was never all that surprised that he couldn’t. It was really only two weeks into the semester, and he already could see the headaches happening.
That was when his cell phone went off. He looked at the number, and he knew.
“Anderson.” He answered it. There was a pause.
“It came back guilty on all counts.” The DA stated, and then Max could feel like he was light as air. He knew that it was finally over. “It is done.”
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Max was surprised with himself. This was not like him. As she didn’t struggle against him, he deepened the kiss slowly. It was like time was standing still. He knew it had been way too long since he had a woman in his life. As his lips moved to cover hers gently and with a need he didn’t quite understand, his brain was screaming at him that she was a student, she was younger than him, she was out of his league, anything, and everything to try to pry himself off of her. However, the rest of him wasn’t listening to his brain, one iota. This had to be a dream. It had to be. He was going to enjoy it, though. His hand at her back was holding her close and off the car door. He could feel the hard metal against the back of his hand. Though he wasn’t pushing her into the car, he knew he was close to it. Though he wanted to keep this going since it could not be real. He had not ever thought to do something like this ever with anyone. He felt like he was
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