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Book #1 "Love Unraveled"
Tessa Monroe
People think being a Monroe means my life is easy. Rich, bratty, entitled-blah blah blah.
Today, though, sitting in the marble lobby of Prescott & Hale, clutching my intern schedule with numb fingers, I feel anything but powerful.
Especially when I see the name I'm assigned under.
Liam Prescott.
Twenty-nine. Genius lawyer. My professor.
And the man whose voice still echoes in my head:
" Brilliance doesn't excuse recklessness, Ms. Monroe."
A fellow intern sits beside me. "You look pale."
"Thanks," I mutter. "I'm working under Prescott."
She winces. "Good luck. He scares me-and I've only seen him once."
Before I can reply, his voice cuts through the lobby.
"Tessa."
I freeze. He stands by the hallway, suit perfect, eyes sharp and unreadable. I swear my pulse forgets how to function.
In his office, he doesn't bother sitting.
"We're setting rules," he says.
"Of course we are," I mumble.
"You'll be on time. You'll stay focused. You'll not turn the office into your personal drama stage."
I raise a brow. "And you think I will?"
"I think you test boundaries," he says, stepping closer, "and I don't have patience for chaos."
"That's not who I am."
"We'll see."
He hands me a file. Our fingers brush-just a second, but enough to make something spark between us. His jaw tightens.
"Be careful, Ms. Monroe" he murmurs. "Some lines are not meant to be crossed."
Before I can speak, a junior lawyer bursts in.
"Prescott-the Vasquez case. Someone tampered with the evidence."
Liam's expression hardens. Controlled. Dangerous.
He turns to me, voice low.
"Tessa, stay close today. Don't go anywhere alone."
A chill slides down my spine. "Why? What's going on?"
"Nothing," he says quickly. Too quickly. "Just trust me."
I shouldn't. He's my mentor, my professor, the one person I'm supposed to keep a distance from.
I realize something frightening
He's the one person I instinctively want near me
This is fucked up
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