They didn't keep their relationship a secret for long. The scandal of a disgraced judge and a rising legal star was exactly the kind of thing the city's gossip columns loved. But for the first time in his life, Harrison didn't care about the judgment of others.
He moved out of the grey stone house and into a smaller, brighter place closer to the city center. He didn't return to the bench—he didn't want the title anymore—but he opened a private consultancy, specializing in the "impossible" cases that required a knowledge of the law that went beyond the textbooks.
Chloe graduated at the top of her class and joined his firm. They became a formidable duo, the veteran and the prodigy, the ghost and the flame.
Their relationship remained a sanctuary of power and surrender. The "Laws of the Ho
