Seduced by Mr. Right

Business at Hand

Sonia nodded, digesting his answer. at least your honest.

He flashed a smile " i have to be, it's written into my contract". The puzzled look returned to her eyes. Ian elaborated, I'm a district manager at People republic bank, he explained. People like their bank executives honest.

These days, she replied, they just like them to be solvent....and to refrain from recklessly sending the share holders assets.

This time, the smile on his lips held no humor behind it,sadly, that's my brother department. which brings me us back to why I'm here. our longtime family lawyer, Mr Bloom, died on Monday.

Sonia realize that she was being "auditioned" for the the position of his family lawyer. She tried to look properly  sympathetic. I'm sorry to hear that.

what he heard in her voice -- sincerity mixed with compassion -- caught him off guard. He could think of only one explanation. "You Knew him"?

"No" she had never met the man. After that fiasco with Matt, which included mistaking him for a decent human being, Sam was the only Lawyer she socialized with these days. But you did. I imagine that when someone that you've known for a long time dies, it does shake you up to a degree.

  Until she said that, he wasn't sure how he felt one way or another about Bloom's death, other than being annoyed because it was an inconvenience. Now, instead of coming down for the week to conduct his business with lawyer, he had to move down here and watch out for Mike and search for a new lawyer, all while familiarizing himself with an entirely new set of people and terrain in the district he was taking on.

He was suppose his attitude toward Mr Bloom could be viewed as rather callous. He wasn't a callous person by nature. He liked to think of himself as compassionate. But anything that had to do with Mike instantly has his back going up.

It was a far cry from when he was a boy and he'd idolized his brother. Sunny, gregarious,with knack of making people forgive him. Mike had been the center of everyone's universe --- until he and his parents realized just how weak a character Mike had.