My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

After the two of them finished talking, Bruce walked out with his pipe in his mouth.

As soon as he left, there was only Zoel and I in the office.

"This table is yours from now on," he said, pointing to the empty table next to him.

I looked at the table and then looked at him, feeling a little strange.

Two of us, face to face?

"I think I shouldn't, Mr. Parker." I tried to be natural and graceful. "I am a newcomer, and yet I am enjoying so many privileges. My colleagues might gossip about me."

Zoel stared at me for two seconds as if he was thinking. After a while, he said again, "So do you think you are as ordinary as those people outside? Why did I make all those concessions to recruit you, then?" This made my face hot, and my throat felt stuck, and I couldn't say a word.

from the table and handed it over. "This is the divorce case

soon as possible. We will accompany Mr. Skinner

always been single? When did he get married?" I opened

I could feel Zoel look at me strangely. At that moment, I wished to find a hole to hide in. However, all I could do was to quietly accept the documents and go back to my

get off work. When I was about to leave early to see my children, Zoel came in with a pile of documents and

felt a little embarrassed.

the silence. "Are you getting off

suddenly felt a little overwhelmed and pointed to the clock on the wall.

first day of my internship, I stayed until six o'clock in the evening on the second day. Miss Reid, I hope you understand what kind of place Dawnie Firm is. A lawyer can't

he took the documents back to his desk, and the temperature in

that I was thirty years old, and was lectured bluntly by a man younger than