The climax of their relationship came not in the bedroom, but in the public eye. A year into their mentorship, a new case emerged—a land tenure dispute that mirrored the Blackwood case that had first brought them together. The current presiding judge was the same man who had orchestrated Harrison's downfall, Judge Sterling, a man of immense greed and zero integrity.
Chloe, now in her final year of law school, was working as an intern for the opposing counsel. She saw the way Sterling was twisting the law, the way he was ignoring the equitable interests of the poor families involved.
She spent every night in the grey stone house, poring over documents with Harrison.
"He's using the 1952 amendment to bypass the primary easement," Harrison explained, his eyes flashing with a familiar fire.
