For a fleeting second, Chloe’s attention had drifted away. She wasn’t thinking about her client or the congressman’s sleazy actions. She thought about all those years of competing with Jennifer in college and law school. She thought about how far she had come since then. She’d been through a marriage and now a divorce. She was frightened by a lesbian fantasy, then later come to accept and embrace it. Jennifer had seemingly gone down a similar path. But she chose denial instead of acceptance. And that choice was the only thing keeping them apart. She was denying herself freedom.
Chloe stepped closer to her rival and spotted something odd – tears falling down her face. Jennifer kept her gaze down, aimed at a pile of papers. To most people in the courtroom, she was simply looking at paperwor
