Broken Women

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Wednesday, June 5th, 2013

Meecham and Seer Law offices

Denver, Colorado

“They’re offering to settle.”

“They can take their offer and shove it. I don’t owe them a thing and Lisa sure didn’t either; bunch of blood suckers...”

“Now just wait, hear me out.” Frazier Cross, the young lawyer who’d been dogging the case for the past couple of months, held up a hand to me. “This very well may not go our way. We may want to give serious consideration to a settlement offer.”

“You’ve heard something you’re not telling me, haven’t you?”

“No, no. Nothing like that.”

I caught the nervous shake of his hand as he pushed his glasses up a little on the bridge of his nose. “Why do I feel like I’m about to get royally screwed then?”

Cross cleared his throat but his voice still cracked a lit