I love the law, and I love being a prosecutor, but sometimes the workload and some of the cases I have to deal with can be wearing. This was one of th...se times. We were in the middle of a difficult murder case in which nothing was cut-and-dried. I won’t go into the gory details, but a woman had shot her husband, and she was claiming self-defense after a long history of abuse. I was having a hard time making a case for first-degree murder, even though it had clearly been a premeditated attack,. “Hey!” he growled, “I’m paying you a lot of money Freckles and I said no questions,” he sternly spoke to the sexy mother.The sexy wife held out her hand, “Pay me then.”Phil stared at her hand for a few minutes and opened his bank bag. He angled it to her, “I have the cash but you don’t get paid until the morning. I don’t want you running out of here. Understood?”Katie nodded her head as she nervously moved her hand down to her side as Phil grinned from ear to ear as he whispered, “That’s. “I’m glad Alec accepted John’s word. I told you what I was going to do if she didn’t tell the truth. She’s totally screwed herself. I assume the wedding is still off?”“Very much so! John knew Lisa had been pretty free with her affection before they started dating. It was the stuff after that he couldn’t accept.”“So now what?” I asked.Jeri sighed, “I tried to talk to Samantha again, but she’s not talking to anyone right now.”“Her dad invited me to dinner on the 10th. Hopefully by then she’ll be. If I may say so, your beauty sleep seems to have worked!” I winked.“You old charmer, Peter. What a lovely thing to say!” With that, she finished her tea (nothing to eat) and left for work.Shortly afterwards, I got a phone call from Jennifer. “Could you come around, straight away Peter?”Remembering her request, I replied, “Yes, Miss,” and dashed over to her front door, ringing the bell.She opened the door, wearing only high heel satin mules and a skimpy, purple, figure-hugging retro-style slip,.