“You’re insane.” I inched away from him, flattening my hands on the wall.

“I’ve always been a little crazy,” he said.

“That appears to be an understatement.” I cleared my throat. “I’m happy where I am with my firm. I’m a partner now, and my client base is growing. I don’t want to leave. And I’m not qualif—”

“Stop saying that. You’re an attorney, aren’t you? You’re perfectly qualified to be someone’s personal counsel.”

“Is it a personal counsel you want? Or a personal fuck buddy?”

“Well…” He grinned.

“I figured. Then what happens when you get tired of me? When you want a new flavor of the month? Or week?”

“What makes you think I’ll get tired of you?”

I couldn’t help but laugh. “Have you ever been in a relationship, Rock?”

“What’s that got to do with anything? Did I ask you for a relationship?”

Damn. Anvil in the belly. I hardly knew the man, but those words stung me like a hornet.

“No, but—”

“No buts. This is a make it or break it situation. You come along for the ride, or I don’t do this.”

“Why would you do this to me? I’ve never done anything to you. You’re making me responsible for the well-being of your family. That’s not fair.”

“It’s not fair that my father did it to me either.”

Rock Wolfe was a jerk. An asshole. He was pulling me into this because he was pissed off and wanted to punish someone else as he’d been punished.

And still…I wanted to fuck him again. I wanted to fuck a supreme douchebag. What the hell was the matter with me?

Maybe if I honeyed up a bit, I could get him to see reason.

“No, it’s not fair that this happened to you,” I said gently. “None of us thinks it’s fair, and we all feel for you. Really. But I have nothing to do with any of it.”

“You drafted his will, Lacey.”

He had me there. “That doesn’t make this my fault. I have an obligation to every client who comes to me to do as they ask as long as the law allows it. I have to zealously represent every client I take on. It’s part of the oath I took when I was admitted to the bar.”

“Consider me a client, then. I want to be zealously represented. I already told you I’d double whatever you’re making at your firm.”

“I’m a partner now. I make…a lot.”

“Whatever a lot is, I’ll double it. You of all people know what my father’s business—”

“Your business, Rock.”

He took a step back, his eyebrows arched.

Was this just now dawning on him?