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what?” she
asked.
    “ Oh, right.” He smiled at
Sandy. “You don’t know why I’m here.”
    “ I don’t,” she
said.
    “ I’m a lawyer,” he said. He
spoke in a rush of words. “I’m an associate at… Well I work for Max
Hargreaves. I’m his associate. Well, one of his associates. In this
economy, I’m lucky to be an associate anywhere but to work for Mr.
Hargreaves is… Well, I’m lucky.”
    Sandy waited to see if the man was done
talking.
    “ Do you know him? Max
Hargreaves. I mean, Mr. Hargreaves.”
    “ I do. We went to the same
high school,” Sandy said. “Why does Max want me to have a
salad?”
    “ Not Max,” the lawyer said.
“Aden. May I sit down?”
    Sandy nodded. The lawyer collapsed into the
couch.
    “ Can I get you some water?”
Sandy asked.
    “ Oh, water, yes, that would
be nice,” he said. “I’ve been running around trying to get here on
time. I’m sure I look a mess or like a crazy person. I’ve never had
direct client contact before. Usually, I just do paperwork, but Mr.
Hargreaves asked me to come and…”
    Entering the back room, Sandy didn’t hear
the rest. She took two bottles of water from her refrigerator. When
she returned, the young man was still talking. She held out the
bottle. He took it from her and drained it.
    “ I’m sorry,” Sandy said. “I
only have forty-five minutes until the next client. I don’t have
time for Aden’s bullshit right now.”
    “ I completely understand.”
The young lawyer seemed revived by his water. “You have been
through a lot. No question.”
    “ Why are you
here?”
    “ Oh, right,” the lawyer
opened his briefcase. “Mr. Norsen wanted me to bring you
lunch.”
    “ Thank you for lunch,”
Sandy moved toward the door.
    “ I have some papers for you
to sign,” the lawyer said. “I spent the morning setting up a new
bank account for you.”
    “ I don’t need a new bank
account,” Sandy said. “I have a bank account.”
    “ This is a joint account,”
the lawyer said. “With Mr. Norsen.”
    “ I can’t afford to give Mr.
Norsen any more money.” Sandy’s voice rose in anger. She couldn’t
believe Aden wanted more from her. “Will you please
leave?”
    “ I’ve really messed this
up,” the lawyer said. “Mr. Hargreaves is going to kill
me.”
    “ I will kill you if you
don’t leave,” Sandy said.
    “ Ok, wait,” the lawyer
said. “Just wait. Before you kill me, hear me out.”
    Crossing her arms across her heart, Sandy
shrugged. The lawyer pulled a piece of paper out of his briefcase.
He began reading from the paper.
    “ Mr. Norsen wants me to
read this to you.”
    The lawyer looked up and Sandy nodded.
    “ I realize that I have been
incredibly selfish. From the moment I couldn’t control my anger,
you have suffered the consequences of my actions. I see now the
predicament I put you in. I am deeply, humbly sorry. From this
moment forward, I will do everything in my power to make this right
for you, for me, and for our children.”
    “ That’s pretty nice,
right?” the lawyer asked.
    “ Same old bullshit,” Sandy
shrugged.
    “ This morning, he put his
Park Hill house on the market,” the lawyer said. “He said he’s
moving wherever you decide to live.”
    “ Doesn’t have anything to
do with me,” Sandy shrugged.
    “ I set up this bank account
so you could access his money,” the lawyer said. “He wants to take
care of you and his children. There’s plenty of money in the
account now. I just need you to sign…”
    “ I’ve taken care of our
money problems,” Sandy said. “We don’t need his money.”
    “ I’ll leave these papers
with you,” the lawyer said. “Mr. Norsen set up the books for your
salon on Outright. It’s a website for small businesses. He said
it’s all set up. You just have to put the numbers in. If you’d like
him to do that, he said that he has time.”
    “ I’m aware that he has
time,” Sandy said. “I, however, do not.”
    “ Listen, I know