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Carol was a thirty-five year old woman who, after working as an associate for one of the toughest law firms in downtown Chicago for the past decade, was finally up for a promotion.
She had been lusting after another Associate, Robert Cook, for a while. She was excited after he had shown signs of interest in her, but she became apprehensive about pursuing things further with a coworker.
Would she finally make partner at her law firm? Or would the only partner she’d have be her coworker Robert?
Written by Georgia Farley
Published by AmorBooks
Carol was a thirty-five year old single woman who worked as an associate lawyer at one of downtown Chicago’s most cutthroat full service law firms, Smith & Walburn. Both of her parents had been lawyers, and it was important to them that she became one too. When her parents had heard the news that she got hired there they were thrilled. All she had to do was work there a while, put her time in, and eventually she would make partner. After that, everything would be good. She would be set for life, and her parents would never have to worry about her future. She wanted to make her parents happy, and so becoming partner had been one of her biggest goals in life.
She spent all her time at the office, took on every case that she could, and forgo…
