Chapter 473

You ended up deciding that you all should walk back over towards your place - one of the reasons you’d been able to find the sublease with Mosche was because he lived about fifteen minutes from the main University campus, so you cut through there instead of ordering up a ride or grabbing a bus right as rush hour was about to start.

Many of the lawyers had made a fast escape, trying to avoid the same delays in getting wherever they were going, but you did see a few sticking around to talk to Judge Mathews. You were a little tempted to try and hobnob with him a little, maybe try to make a more personal impression, but decided that might not look good since he would be ruling on the mock trial - you’d keep that for after the ruling was made.

The four of you had made it outside, the summer sky clear and sunny, when you were stopped by Maeve appearing next to you and making you do a double take because it felt like she’d just apparated out of thin air. “Did you ask them?” she asked bluntly.

“Ask us what?” Eric asked.

Maeve thankfully ignored him. “I did,” you said. “We can make plans tomorrow.”

“Good,” she nodded, then turned to Gemma and Sabrina. “It’s nice to meet you.” Then she shifted her satchel strap on her shoulder and started walking down the sidewalk.

“What was that about?” Eric asked, obviously confused as he watched Maeve walk away. She might not have been as curvy and endowed as Amanda, but she was still attractive.

“Oh, she wants to change sides,” Gemma said, starting to smirk a little. “She thinks we’ll win, and she’s willing to trade sexual favours to join our team.”

“Wait, really?” Eric asked, then saw the look on Gemma’s face and rolled his eyes.

“Eric, don’t you have a girlfriend who would care about you accepting sexual favours?” you asked.

“I mean ... Yeah, I guess,” Eric said. You had all started walking in the direction you needed to go. “But she did say I should have breakup sex with Lucy, so she might say go for it.”

“Here’s a question for you,” Sabrina said. “Does that go the same for her? If she was just getting out of a relationship, toxic or not, would you be OK with her banging it out for closure?”

“Well, no,” Eric said. “But that’s different.”

“Why’s it different?” Gemma asked, and you suppressed the urge to groan because you knew there was no way Eric was coming out on top of this one.

“Because sex is different for guys and girls,” Eric said. “It’s about partner bonding, right? Like, it’s easier for guys to have sex without getting emotionally attached, but for 90% of females sex creates partner bonding and hurts their ability to connect with future partners.”

“There is so much to unpack there,” Sabrina sighed, shaking her head.

“Are you telling me that I have a harder time ‘partner bonding’ with John because I was in a committed relationship before?” Gemma asked.