MARTHA POV
*Clumsy - Fergie*
I was not prepared for casual Caelin.
I had prepared for suit Caelin. That was my first mistake.
Suit Caelin was dangerous, obviously. Suit Caelin was tall and broad and unfairly composed, the kind of man who looked like he had never once lost a fight, a document, or his dignity in a tub while talking to a dog.
Not that I was thinking about tubs.
Or dogs.
Or dignity.
Anyway.
Suit Caelin I could handle, theoretically, because a suit created structure and boundaries. A suit said business. A suit gave me something to argue with, something to mentally cross-examine. I could look at a man in a suit and remember I was Martha, attorney at law, destroyer of cheating husbands, undefeated in three separate negotiations against men who thought raising their voice
