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even telling you about this?” Sophie got up from her seat shaken inside but trying to hold her cool. She drew in a deep breath. “Sorry it didn’t work out for you, Mrs. Stone. Good bye.”
     
    She walked out of the office barely looking at the receptionist on her way out. Her throat burned, her head pounded and her stomach squeezed. Tears moistened her eyes. She’d never been fired before. And with such indignity. She’d always been careful. Damn Carlos!
     
    As she walked out on the sidewalk she held her head up wiped her eyes with the tissue from her coat pocket and proceeded to the park. She could think clearer beside a body of water. All she wanted was her Starbucks coffee, a seat and the replaced smartphone that she got at a Rogers store yesterday at the mall. Thank goodness that store was opened on a Sunday.
     
    What on earth would she do now? She was finished.
     
     
     
    12
     
    Tessa Bradley sat in the lawyer’s office puffing away at her cigarette despite the No Smoking sign. She was unaware that her leg was shaking a mile a minute. She was eager to get this show on the road.
     
    “Mr. Jackson will see you now, Mrs. Bradley,” the receptionist called out.
     
    “Ms. That’s Ms. Bradley. I’m divorced remember?”
     
    “Oh, sorry, Ms. Bradley.” The young woman looked apologetic.
     
    Tessa got up from her seat eyeing the woman as if she’d done it for spite. Everything bothered her today. Everything. For instance that old goat she married left her with peanuts when they divorced. Okay, so she had a little fling with that sexy young gardener. What was he expecting? She was young and he couldn’t give her that in their marriage. She was   nobody’s trophy wife. You would think that he would have invested in Viagra. Then of course, his son, Carlos, her supposed step-son never did like her. She was sure it was revenge why he was not letting go of custody of Bria . So what if he took care of her while she came clean off her habit. Bria was still her kid. And that money that sneaky old man left Bria before he died—well there was no way Tessa was not going to get her cut. She would do whatever it took to get her piece of the fortune. Even taking Bria back and hiring someone to take care of her. She knew she wouldn’t know what to do with a kid with autism but at least with the new money she’d hire someone else.
     
    “I see you wanted to see me urgently.” The lawyer showed her to her seat in his office.
     
    “Yes, I want you to see something.”
     
    “What is it?”
     
    “Just log on to YouTube. I’ll show you. I still think the video is still up there.”
     
    The lawyer and Tessa looked on while Tessa continued to puff away at her cigarette. She eyed   him with a smirk hoping for some good news. Something she could use against Carlos to prove he’s a womanizing unstable guardian for Bria if the mediation didn’t work out and it had to go to court.
     
    “Well,” the lawyer said, shaking his head as he pulled off his glasses to rub the bridge of his nose. “I’m afraid this doesn’t really show much except he’s helping a woman.”
     
    “Yes, but kissing her at a kid’s party? And someone wrote that she’s with someone else’s man. So he’s two-timing some girl. One of his many women probably.”
     
    The lawyer sighed, he’d only agreed to take her on as a client when she was married to Carlos Bradley II and her ex-boyfriend had a video that he was trying to blackmail her with. He was getting much too old for this now. It was time to retire. Bradley Senior was an odd character who preferred to marry instead of date but he still cared deeply for his women except for the money part, he just was born a miser in his blood. But he still felt sorry that Tessa had a rough upbringing and wanted her to be okay. She after all, gave   him his second child, the old man would rationalize. Though he cut her off from her money when he learned she had a drug habit and an