As their lawyer!”“Wow! High-powered law, that. Let a Q.C. near a case, and he will rip it to shreds if he is for the defence.”“Sounds like goo... advice.”“Well, we had a case where we were accused of failing to help a patient in time, but our Q.C. proved there was no way we could have got there any earlier, given the restrictive rules we have to work under.”“Ah. The rules, yes. We have to abide by these as well, particularly when dealing with people. If we ever get into a position where we are. Even if he were home, he'd probably be half-soused, she decided. Anyway, there was no talking to dad. He talked to everybody except his family. She knew of her father's reputation as a talker; it was an embarrassment to her to know that he was one of the town drunks, a character known as Gabby Scott. His loud-mouth ways, quick temper and ready fists had landed him in jail for short stretches on more than one occasion. And mom... ? She wouldn't be able to see her until morning... that is if she. She smiled to herself reading his motive.Sure enough, once she was seated he sat opposite her so that he would have aview of her legs. ?Men are so easyto read and manipulate,? she thought to herself. He poured forboth of them. Opium liked her coffee strong and black. ?The papersshould be ready for signature in a few minutes,? he smiled at her as headjusted his position slightly to get an even better view of her legs. Opium had knownBob Charles for four or five years, ever since he had taken. One had just walked out in the middle of George’s tantrum and the other had waited to tell him to go fuck himself before stomping out in a rage just as juvenile as George’s. So now George called me first so I could bring people into line without losing them.Megan was one of our best people even though she’d only been with the firm for five years, much better that the two that had quit. She and her husband had become friends of ours, but that wasn’t why I covered for her. The plain fact of the.