Chapter 4Raine got nearly flattened under a heavy caseload throughout August and September, including an impassioned plea to come in and consult with his old firm in Los Angeles. He did continue to stop by Uncommon Grounds every day for caffeine, but he looked harried and distracted, and took a lot of phone calls.
He said he couldn’t talk much about the case, but it was a high-profile one involving celebrities and drugs and scandals and a vicious divorce, which was the bit he’d been asked to help with, and which needed gentle handling. Don nodded, and did not ask too many questions, and made him new drinks: bitter and cocoa-heavy, whiskey syrup infused, blood orange and more ginger, and once laced with prickly pear flavor and flecked with edible gold.
Raine smiled at that last one, and t
