Angela grumbled as she bashed her keyboard, writing yet another e-mail to the opposing lawyer regarding an ongoing paternity case. The prospective father was digging his heels in, determined to avoid paying child support and claiming the young woman was seeing other men at the same time they were dating. It was crap, of course, but she couldn't say that directly. Instead, she dug through her thesaurus to find the right words to call his client a jackass who needed to pay the hell up.
She finished off the e-mail and sent it, wishing she'd taken Hunter up on his offer to take the rest of the day off. But business was business and she wasn't at the point financially where she could take off on a whim, even if it was with Hunter.
The ringing phone brought her up out of her annoyance. She cle
