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“I loved this hot little sexy story and can’t wait for the next installment. Sawyer Bennett is awesome.”

—Monica Murphy, New York Times and USA Today

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—Lauren Blakely, New York Times and USA Today

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“I always enjoy Bennett’s writing, so I expected to enjoy this. What I truly adored about Objection is the fun and slightly snarky tone. Objection is very different from Bennett’s previous books, and you can just tell that she had an absolute blast creating Mac and her crazy fun story.”

—Andrea, The Bookish Babe

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Text copyright © 2015 Sawyer Bennett

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ISBN-13: 9781503947900

ISBN-10: 1503947904

To all my legal peeps. I miss you every day!

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

CHAPTER 18

CHAPTER 19

CHAPTER 20

CHAPTER 21

CHAPTER 22

CHAPTER 23

CHAPTER 24

CHAPTER 25

CHAPTER 26

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PROLOGUE

Five Years Ago

I can’t control the way my legs are shaking, so I sit back in my chair and cross one leg over the other, hoping the weight and position will still the trembling.

You’ve got the job, Leary. Nothing to be nervous about.

Glancing out the lobby window to my left, the sun is breaking high over the downtown Raleigh cityscape with clear blue skies and fluffy white clouds. It’s a bright, cheerful scene and yet I’m filled with oily dread.

Today is my first day of work with the law firm of Knight & Payne, and I don’t know why in the hell I thought that I’d be cut out for a job like this. I’m waiting in their massive lobby on the twenty-seventh floor of the Watts Building. The firm is so big it actually has two lobbies: one on this floor for the civil litigation department, and another on the twenty-eighth floor for the criminal department. Exposed black-iron beams above and rough-hewn wooden floors below lend the decor an intimidating air. The raw nature of the industrial design is tempered with sleek leather furnishings in shades of cream and taupe, which screams money and power—two words that would never be used to describe Leary Michaels.

As one of only two incoming associate attorneys for the year, I’m still convinced they made a mistake in offering me so highly prized and coveted a position. I didn’t think my interview six months ago was anything special, and while I graduated in the top ten percent of my law class at Stanford, firms like Knight & Payne usually only accept the top one percent.