Chapter 1

Walking into the law offices of Dillard and Connelly, Thad Conway had the thought “Another day another dollar.” He said a “good morning” to Margret the switchboard operator-receptionist and checked to see if there were any phone messages for him. There weren’t any messages. He went to his office and took a seat behind his desk.

Thad Conway was an attorney and had been working for this law firm for almost three years, ever since he graduated from law school and passed the bar. Dillard and Connelly was primarily an insurance defense law firm and was the largest firm in the immediate area which was located close to the courthouse and the university. The firm employed some twelve attorneys along with support staff. Brad Dillard was the managing attorney and Scott Connelly his partner was rated the best defense trial attorney in the county and one of the best in the State.

Thad glanced at the correspondence that was on suspense for this day laying on his desk that his legal assistant Marcia had put there and checked to see what was on his calendar. It looked to be a normal full day consisting of answering some interrogatories, completing two trusts and wills, and taking a plaintiff’s and defendant’s depositions in a bodily injury lawsuit.

Walking into the breakroom to get a cup of coffee before he started to work Thad couldn’t help but notice the women who worked here. There were some attractive ladies and they all dressed nicely since that was the unspoken rule as there were no business casual dress days here. From a male’s perspective, it could be said that was one of the unspoken benefits of working here.

While a number of the ladies were attractive the hands-down best-looking lady working there was Loren Collier, who was Brad Dillard’s executive legal assistant. She was of normal height and weight with an enticing slim figure and shoulder-length auburn hair. She did have a very pretty maybe classic face along with breasts that were more than ample and a cute small butt. One of the associates had said because of Loren’s good looks that she could give a dead man an erection. The tight white blouses and skirts she wore advertised the beautiful woman she was. Age-wise she was in her early thirties and was married to a professor who taught at the university and was said to be tops in his field. Someone said he was a prolific publisher of research papers.

Back in his office, Thad went about the day’s business. While the firm was doing primarily insurance defense work there were other forms of legal work that were requested by clients who had become acquainted with the firm. Estate planning, real estate transactions, contract disputes, divorces, and a host of other actions that required attorney involvement were at times requested by clients. All this type of work was funneled to Thad to handle. This made Thad somewhat of a legal generalist in doing this work which he didn’t mind doing since it took the pressure off him in being rated strictly on a billable hours basis which was the measurement for the other associates.

Thad didn’t do any actual courtroom trial work on the bodily injury claims which he wanted to do and that was a sore point with him. The trial work on the injury cases was handled by Scott Connelly or other senior associates. Thad’s courtroom trial work was limited to cases involving solely automobile property damage claims where no injury was involved. So far he had won the five lawsuits he had taken to a verdict. He knew that roughly only ten percent of the licensed attorneys are competent bodily injury trial attorneys and he thought he could be part of that ten percent if given the opportunity.

As usual, doing the work caused the time to go by quickly during the day. When he looked at the clock he knew it was time to close up shop and call it a day.

Walking to the front door to exit the office he took one look and stopped. He could see that it was windy and raining fairly hard. Besides not having an umbrella, his car was two blocks farther down the street at Smithy’s getting an oil change. He decided to wait here till the rain let up.

While he was standing looking at the rain, walking to exit the office was Loren. Seeing Thad standing there she said, “Problems?”

“No, I just need the rain to let up so I can walk over to Smithy’s to get my car which is having an oil change.”

“Well if you want you can share my umbrella with me to my car and I can give you a lift there.”

He accepted her offer and they walked to her car. Thad held the umbrella over Loren as she entered her car on the driver’s side. He couldn’t help but notice her lovely legs when her skirt slid up to her mid-thigh as she took her seat. He closed the car door and just as he did this a gust of wind caused the umbrella to rise into a position it never was intended to go and made it useless. By the time Thad was able to go around and enter the car on the passenger side he was soaking wet.

Loren was laughing as she watched at him taking his seat and closing the car door. She looked into her purse and took out a handkerchief. She leaned toward Thad and started patting the water dripping from his face. Her face was fairly close to Thad’s face while she was doing this patting. Without any warning, her hand holding the handkerchief went to the back of his head and pulled him to her for their lips to meet in a kiss.

Thad was shocked that she did this but he wasn’t stunned. His mouth opened to accept her probing tongue and his tongue did battle with it. This kissing went on for a while which had Thad wonder if he should start exploring her body which he had long admired. Before he could decide on doing that her hand left the back of his head and took Thad’s hand that was on her waist by his wrist. She placed Thad’s hand on the inside of her thigh, just below her skirt which had risen higher.

Thad wasn’t raised to be a dummy and quickly concluded what Loren wanted. He continued to kiss her but his hand went up the smooth skin of her inner thigh until it could slip under the leg band of her panties. One of his fingers dipped into her most precious place to gather some moisture and then moved up to caress the nubbin he knew was her clit. When he touched her clit she gave a little moan.

He continued to caress her clit and could sense her becoming more aggressive in kissing him. After about a long minute her thighs which were open as wide as they could be because of the confines of her skirt closed on his hand and she froze. He could feel her shudder. When she did this he heard her give another long moan. There wasn’t a doubt in his mind that she had orgasmed.

Loren relaxed and ended the kiss. She removed his hand which was still under her skirt. Without saying anything she braced her back against the seat and slightly raised her hips to pull down her skirt. After accomplishing this she started the automobile’s engine and did the short drive to Smithy’s. Stopping there she simply said good-night signaling Thad should leave the car which he did wondering what in the hell had just happened.

On the drive to his apartment and all that evening, Loren was all Thad thought about. Not only was he thinking about what had happened, he was also thinking or maybe hoping there could be more. How to achieve that occurring was now his singular thought. The indications seemed to be that Loren was receptive to this but until he had her in bed and was in between her spread thighs it was only a hope or maybe a dream that it would happen.

The next morning at work, he still had that thought about bedding her. When he saw her at work Loren didn’t do anything to acknowledge what had happened between them. That he guessed was to be expected but he still would have liked to have her give some signal to him.