The Take
“She’d argued the case against detaining her client for a further twelve hours, pointing out that indecent exposure didn’t even warrant the power of arrest, but Hartigan had ignored her, contending that Sunday’s assault was serious enough to justify a custody extension pending further inquiries.
The solicitor’s name was Julia Swainson, and the jungle drums at the Magistrates’ Court suggested she was cutting a swathe through some of the city’s older legal fraternity too bored or desperate to care... about their marriages. Not just an Oxford degree. Not just an implacable determination to succeed. But a lean, gym-honed figure and a slightly crooked smile that spoke, to Dawn, of mischief and curiosity.
Her presence in the interview room beside Addison stiffened Stapleton’s determination to put the lecturer away. Not only was he screwing the tastier students but he was clearly making a major impression on his legal adviser as well. The coolness of the guy under fire. The fact that he never betrayed anything more than a faint irritation at this intrusion into his well-ordered life.MoreLess
The solicitor’s name was Julia Swainson, and the jungle drums at the Magistrates’ Court suggested she was cutting a swathe through some of the city’s older legal fraternity too bored or desperate to care... about their marriages. Not just an Oxford degree. Not just an implacable determination to succeed. But a lean, gym-honed figure and a slightly crooked smile that spoke, to Dawn, of mischief and curiosity.
Her presence in the interview room beside Addison stiffened Stapleton’s determination to put the lecturer away. Not only was he screwing the tastier students but he was clearly making a major impression on his legal adviser as well. The coolness of the guy under fire. The fact that he never betrayed anything more than a faint irritation at this intrusion into his well-ordered life.MoreLess
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