Elisabeth Sharman has a secret.
As a senior solicitor with the Australian Capital Territory Legal Aid Office she's defending a 19 year old with amnesia. He can't remember committing the murder for which he's on trial. Or says he can't.
Robert Murphy has a problem: Elisabeth.
He's her instructing solicitor and she's not playing by the legal rules. She's new to the office. No-one knows her modus operandi. But it's more, much more, than an unusual methodology.
She's using her feminine wiles with him - to good effect - and he's afraid her motives aren't pure.
Will the secret, when revealed, explain everything? Or will the result be catastrophic?
#mild sex, 13+
'A legal affair' is created by Alana Woods, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

A Legal Affair

Tonight Elisabeth stayed, to keep the mood from deteriorating to funereal proportions. Let the Montgomery's rattle on about what they had been doing to keep themselves entertained that afternoon - it sounded like it had been a struggle - and stretched for as long as possible the process of admiring the new outfit Julia had bought as she draped it over him. White shirt and bone moleskins. He looked suitably haggard and interesting, in the last throes of consumptive decline. Elisabeth had to persuade Julia that he should wear them. Anything that might wring some pity from the jury.


Robert added his comment when asked. He placed less weight on the clothes - Elisabeth was making a feast of them - but understood why she was jollying them along.


In spite of efforts the mood became awkward. Russell never tried and after an hour they were showing the strain. In the end Elisabeth suggested they leave. Tomorrow would be time enough to cry.


Chapter 62: Over the cliff she goes