When Lucas returned to the apartment from Lefèvre & Associés, Iris was sitting on the sofa watching television. The local news droned on, dull and meaningless. He walked over and pressed a kiss to the corner of her mouth, the same as he did every day. Iris reached up and wrapped her arms around him as he leaned in close. She smiled. "How did it go?"
Lucas grinned with the cocky satisfaction of a twenty-year-old. "I am your new colleague. Is there a welcome ceremony?"
He had ranked first in the law department for four straight years at a top New York university. Of course he had passed. If he were not the sole heir of the Sterling family, he would have been an even better lawyer than she was. Iris kissed him on the lips. "What kind of welcome ceremony do you want?"
Lucas did not answer w
