Chapter 5
Jordan couldn’t pretend to like either the husband or the wife in the divorce case he was dealing with today. Both of them were so nasty they probably deserved each other. The one good thing he could say about either of them was that they hadn’t had children, so their decision to go through a divorce at Christmas wasn’t ruining anyone’s holiday but their own.
Well, and his. But that was beside the point. He wasn’t thinking too hard about Christmas anyway, not since he walked away from Sam.
At least Alex Newman, the husband, paid his bills on time. So maybe Alex was the slightly better partner, because he had two good things going for him.
He stood up from his desk and stretched his back. He couldn’t imagine having to live with Alex, or with Elizabeth. He didn’t have to. He ju
