Never Saw You Coming

NEVER SAW YOU COMING S.L. SCOTT S.L. SCOTT Copyright © 2023 by S.L. Scott All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the written permission of the author. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental. Published in the United States of America ISBN: 979-8-9878634-1-1 *Visit my website for warnings. Please note this page contains spoilers. FOLLOW ME To keep up to date with her writing and more, visit S.L. 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More specifically, Tuesday afternoons are the worst. We’re past Monday, not quite to midweek, and nowhere close to the weekend. I’ve never liked Tuesdays, and today is no exception. “I laid the facts out in black and white. A delay granted at the last minute is utterly ludicrous.” As if it can relieve the frustration congested in my chest, I grip the phone tighter ready to crush it. “It’s a setback, Loch,” my dad says, “not the end.” I didn’t bother calling my driver, Brady, and telling him to bring the car around. I called my dad as soon as I pushed through the courthouse doors instead, choosing to walk back to the office. I had no choice since he’d been messaging me for the past hour, wanting to know the outcome of the case. Walking toward the offices with my briefcase in one hand and the phone in the other, I press it to my ear like my dad does. Fuck. My younger brother’s right. Noah called it last Christmas; I am turning into our father. Who holds their phone to their ear anymore? Dad. That’s who. But currently, finding an earbud is the least of my problems. “The judge is open to an appeal, but there are stipulations—” I say. “You know this before the case has been decided?” I tense from the suspicion infiltrating his tone, making me wonder if I’ve fucked up. I’m secure in every part of my life, except when it comes to getting my dad’s approval. “I know the judge . . . well.” There’s a distinctive pause, one that sucks the air out of the conversation entirely. Fuck. “How well?” my dad asks. I hear the question he’s really asking without saying a word. He’s one of the East Coast's most sought-after corporate litigation attorneys. I was never able to slip one by him—not as a kid or even a grown fucking man running the Manhattan branch of the family law firm. “Well enough,” I reply, hoping to move this to a different topic than the woman who threatened to rule in the plaintiff’s favor simply because I forgot—read that as on purpose—to call her for a second date. I had good reason. First, showing up at my apartment unannounced and without an invite with nothing but a gavel under her robe (don’t ask where she had tucked it) and trying to seduce me by repeatedly calling me bailiff didn’t work in Judy’s favor. And yes, she insisted I call her Judge Judy.