Chapter 23

This was definitely the most daring thing she'd ever done in her personal life. She'd certainly spent enough time arguing with herself before dropping the Toys-4-Us bag in with the beer and wine. But Petra had all but challenged her to move out of her comfort zone and she'd thought, Why not?

It wasn't that she didn't have sex. Oh, well, maybe she hadn't had any for a long time. And it was always somehow...detached. She knew how the men she knew looked at her. She was a very successful litigation attorney whose life revolved around her career. Other attorneys called her The Negotiator, because when she was on the case, the other side usually found itself "negotiated" out of everything but their jockey shorts. As someone who came from nothing and had to claw her way to where she was, it was a very satisfying situation for her. But it left a void in a part of her life that random hookups couldn't seem to fill.