Old Friends

[featherborn]

Some sense of old mischief makes June give a false name when she books an appointment at Marcus' law firm. She wants the upper hand. He might not even connect this woman with crows wrinkles and laughter lines with the woman he knew before.

She comes dressed smart in a business suit, with hair tied back in a loose bun and strides through the door to Marcus' office, barely waiting for the secretary to finish announcing her.

"They say you are the best lawyer in the city when you have someone trying to sue you."

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[featherborn]

She names a small, exclusive restaurant where they might relax. Being in the limelight, or surrounded by scores of either dinners is not her idea of an enjoyable evening. "I know the manager, I have a table there any time I want it." She had done much to save his teenage daughter after a car accident and had struck up a friendship with the family in the long days between operations.

Her lips curl up into an amused smile. "He is Italian and would be very offended if he heard I went elsewhere."

[keepstheirsecrets]

Oh, she has recently moved out here and she's already on such good terms with the proprietor of such a fine locale? She does work fast, doesn't she?

"Then we had best not disappoint."

[featherborn]

She is a people person or so she would claim. But it is down to pure luck, who comes through the doors and lands on her table.

"No," she laughs. "Do you remember the time we got banned from two restaurants because we annoyed one waiter?" Or to be fair, that might might have been more her fault, in her wilder days when she let her temper show.