His Law Student (Lawyers Club Book 1)

9

Lena was all smiles the day she got home. She got there Saturday night, still happy about the time she got to spend with Alex and his brothers and his mother. She was an amazing woman, she was nice and she was welcoming. 

Lena got to know more about Alex, like how much he provided for his mom and his brothers still. He didn't make it known, but there was a small conversation she saw with Nikos and Alex and she heard something about needing money for school, and Alex pulled out his wallet with basically no questions asked and handed over a couple big bills before he told his brother to just make sure the rest goes to savings.

She and Alex left his mothers house, his brother Dorian walked them since he lived the same way. Dorian said something about how Alex should bring her back next week when they knew which way the trail was already going. Before she knew it, standing at the stairs before going up, Dorian wrapped her in a tight hug and he was laughing as he pulled away,

Lena didn't know it but Dorian saw the way Alex glared at him, especially when Dorian ghosted his hands down over her ass and Alex almost stepped up until Dorian laughed. He obviously hadn't touched her ass, but he wanted to tease Alex enough so he would show his cards.

Lena was humming as she helped her mom make breakfast before church. It was simple pancakes, eggs, and bacon. She was humming as she moved around the table and put the plates and forks down, and that was when she felt it. The weight of her mothers stare.

"Yes mom?" Lena turned and saw her mother bringing the stacks of food out to join her.

"You're happy." Her mother told her and Lena nodded slowly. "Why?"

 "I am always happy when I am home." Lena objected but she saw the look on her moms face , and she was not going to hear the end of it.

"No... you're stressed, you're trying to relax, you help and clean and try and cover up your problems at school. You're my daughter Magdalena, I know you... and I know something has happened to make you happy." Lena's mother leaned in and waited for an answer.

"I just... I have good news, I think it's good news but I don't want to say anything until I know for sure. I worked so hard for this mom, I was picked to help in a real court case. If we win... mom, if we win I can probably get a job at any firm in the city. I don't want to tell dad yet." Lena let the smaller secret out, and it was the smaller secret. If she let out the fact that her mentor was a Greek man that brought her home to his mother... she would be fitted for a wedding gown and her dad would go back to New York to meet him.

Lena didn't want anything to go wrong, especially not her mom or dad just ending up in the court house and seeing anything between her and Alex, and she knew that if her mother could tell there was something up with her just today... if her mother could see through her, then she could see that Lena was kind of falling for Alex.

She was falling hard for him.

There wasn't going to be a way in heaven or hell to hide that from her mother.

Lena went to church and when she got home she saw her oldest brother waiting for her. He smiled softly and they went into her old room and she sat on the bed and hugged her old teddy bear to her chest. "What's going on?" He asked her outright and she rolled her lips in.

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is, you are happier than you were when you called and told me about the internship. What is going on baby sister, do I have to come up there and sleep on the couch?" Adrian wasn't going to be as easy as her mom, he was too protective.

"Promise me you won't tell mom or dad. It's nothing horrible or bad. You know me." She pleaded and she took a deep breath. He moved and closed her door before standing against it and waiting. "Alex, the Lawyer I work with, the ADA."

"He made a move on you?" Adrian knew he was older, almost if not as old as he was. Early 30s weren't the right age for his baby sister.

"No. His mother called when I was there with him in his office, he let it slip he was with me, a woman, and you know how our mother is...she talked and talked and he was telling her no, that I didn't need an authentic Greek food for the first time, that I was Greek and then that kind of imploded. Mom would want to know about him, but the fact that he is Greek too would make her a 100 times more interested in what we were and where this relationship is going...and it was just too much so I agreed to have dinner with him...and his family." She said the last part very slowly, and Lena saw her brothers reaction.

"You met his mom and dad? His brothers? His sisters?" Adrian asked, knowing that was big, even if it wasn't a dating relationship, it might turn into one if she did things correctly.

"Well, he only has brothers, and his dad is passed on." She told him  and she saw something flash in his eyes and she got worried. "What was that look?"

"Nothing. Lena, you're telling me that the reason you're all smiles and excitement is because you had dinner with this man, your mentor...and his family?" He asked and then started to laugh lightly. "Lena, you like him, you like him a hell of a lot." He laughed harder when she threw the teddy bear she was holding at him. "You have my word that I will not tell mom or dad about you liking your older, Greek ADA mentor you have been spending time with... or that you have already met his family." Adrian laughed lightly as his sister blushed. He hadn't seen her like this since high school, it was refreshing to him. He almost assumed he would be like him, determined to never marry or have kids.

There was something about his mother trying to auction him off to the women in church like cattle that always made him sick to his stomach. He was rude and 'dirty' to the ones who tried too hard to actually 'win' him and his mother slapped the back of his head enough times he was sure there was a permanent red mark there.

But he was not cattle, he was not a prized man who obeyed his mother... he was just a guy who didn't want responsibility past his job. He and Lena found comfort in the idea of working for the rest of their lives. He liked that about his sister, she wan't like the other girls, and he only hoped that this ADA knew that.

There was no way Lena was going to see all that he could do and provide for her, and simply give up her dreams. Through, if Adrian were to fall in love, he knew that he would want someone like his sister, someone who didn't expect anything from him, someone who wanted to work and provide for herself. If he wasn't a 'son' on the plumber board, he would try to score with a woman who was in another line of work... but he was settled with being a bachelor.

Lena looked at her brother, he always went into deep thought when he was alone or comfortable. Usually she only got to see this side of him after dinner when they met to relax. He was staring at the floor, his arms crossed, a small scowl on his face, and she had to wonder what he was thinking so hard about. Every time she asked she always got the 'don't you worry about me, you have school to worry about' speech that was now adding in her internship as another thing she should be worried about over him.

Lena didn't like when Adrian didn't think she could handle something, but pulling things out of him was like trying to pull a 2mm splinter out of a thumb, without tweezers... impossible.

She curled in on herself a bit more as she thought about going back tonight. She was excited, she was getting jittery, and it wasn't just to see Alex again.

After the night before when he kissed her cheek goodbye, she was tempted to turn her face and catch his lips.

What she didn't know was how close Alex came to taking her chin in his hands and turning her face up for him. He was so close to her, she was smiling, thanking him, saying how nice it was to meet his family... and he was being pulled into her space fast. He went for the corner of her mouth, and then the rational side of his brain steered him to her cheek.

Alex spent Sunday morning sleeping in.With his other two interns he was worried over the cases they had. They were almost as organized as Lena, but they were also twice as nervous as she was. He had no issues with the weeks coming up with any of the cases, but the nervous interns somehow, for some reason, were making him nervous.

For the other cases he started to type up the stages of evidence, of arguments, and for the sake of maybe giving her a momento of her time with him he typed up hers as well. Lena had things under control, he knew that, and he was glad he could  have her at his side in court this week.

Alex thought about when he could make it out for a good night with her before realizing that he wasn't just thinking about his schedule but hers as well. He would have to talk to her about it, make sure they both had time off, or if she had tests coming up and she needed to study.

That brought the idea of him offering his old notes if she had any of the same teachers, he could offer them, bring her here to get them... make that a date if she didn't have to go rushing off.

She was probably the best in all her classes still, no internship was making her fall back. He also wanted go call his old professor and ask more about her, see how well and pretend to be writing her a recommendation and wanting to do a full background check through her school for a cover.

In fact, he hadn't asked her what kind of law she wanted to practice, there was a small part in the back of his head wishing she would try for ADA, but he knew that she probably wanted more out of life than just a city appointed job. He wanted to ask if there was any firms she would be applying to... 

Another thought struck him as he spaced off and it made him clam up a bit. What if she wanted to work back in Boston? What was the point of trying to date her now if when she graduated in 3 months she was going to move back home and away from him?

He could barely make time to see his mother and his friends... how was he going to date a girl that lived and worked in Boston?

That idea alone made him want to see her now, to talk about her future wants and needs before this went so far as a real first date.

Alex felt his heart breaking at the thought of probably never seeing her after this trial was over. He would probably torture himself a bit and go to her graduation, and call Boston firms if that was where she chose to apply just to make sure that she had the best opportunities down there that she could.

He wanted to drink, and as he looked at the time and saw it was only 11:30 am, he instead called his best friend and headed out to the gym. Gabe and he went round for rounds on a couple machines before going right into the small boxing area only to see that the line was filled... so they challenged each other to see who could jump rope the longest.

Alex had energy to burn, and he made sure he won today, so Gabe had to go with him to buy a late lunch.

"Wanna tell me why you wanted to be pushed today?" Gabe asked as he unrolled his gyro.

"Just thinking too much," Alex sighed as he bit into his own food and tried to seem too hungry to talk, but even without Gabe asking, Alex cracked. "I like her. I like her a hell of a lot. She's funny, she is smart, she will never give up her career, and she made it through my brothers." 

Gabe almost choked at the last bit. "She met them?"

"My mother too." Alex wasn't happy to pass along the nights happenings, but Gabe could tell him if it was wrong, if he should or shouldn't do what he was thinking about doing. "I want, no I need to ask about her future plans. If she is going back to Boston I can't keep thinking of her like this."

"And if she is staying here in New York? Are you going to just move her from the dorm into your place?"

"She doesn't live in the dorms." Alex knew where she lived, he dropped her at the apartments the other night.

"Smart girl then... you like her, your mother and brothers like her... all you need to know is if she is staying, and you think she is?"

"She might have said something but I can't remember if she said she would apply to both areas... I want to make sure." Alex repeated and he tried to think back on that conversation, but at the time he was focusing on her and her notes, and trying to word the argument in his head. He was great at a general multitasking...  but remembering after a few days was almost impossible.

"You just need to see her AL, talk to her on Tuesday or something, but do it after court so you don't ruin your game, or hers." Gabriel told him and he nodded slowly. "I want to be best man when the time comes."

"Oh shut it, no one is talking marriage." Alex retorted but even that night, when he laid in bed and tried not to over think, he started to dream about the day Lena could be laying next to him with his ring on her finger.