Because of You (LAWS OF YOU #1) by Samantha Brinn EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Samantha Brinn
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Hallie
I hammer the final nail into the wall hook, the banging echoing in the large
office, empty except for a black spinning chair and a glass desk covered
by a vast assortment of beverages. I hang my diploma on the hook and step
back to admire my handiwork like the professional I absolutely am. Then I
collapse into the chair and spin in a circle like the chaotic human I spend a
great deal of my life pretending I absolutely am not. I shove that thought
away as quickly as it comes. I don’t need an extra existential crisis this
morning.
Today is the day we move into our office. The most perfect office on a
shady Pittsburgh street with enormous windows and crown moldings and
slightly creaky steps and gorgeous built-in bookshelves. The office that will
house the all-female private client law firm that my friends Julie, Emma,
Molly, and I have been dreaming about starting since we were first year law
students buried under ten-pound textbooks and a paralyzing fear of the
Socratic method. The law firm we are finally making a reality after paying
our dues for five years at big international law firms housed in downtown
high rises. We’ve been in the serious planning stage for more than a year—
from the minute we finished our fourth year as associates. And it is all
finally happening.
Today. Our name on the deed and my diploma on the wall is proof.
This is ours.
There is only one tiny problem. I’m not one hundred percent sure I want
it to be mine.
That thought has been percolating in the back of my mind for the entire
year we have been planning in earnest, leaving me feeling guilty and
disloyal for even considering abandoning our four-way dream. I have told
exactly no one about my doubts.
I keep hoping that as we get closer, they will disappear. The anticipation
being worse than the actual event and all that. But instead, the opposite is
happening. The closer we get to realizing our dream, the worse it gets.
And today, the day after we closed on the townhouse that would house
our firm, and six months before we officially open for business, I am
vibrating with anxiety. I absolutely don’t know how to say the words, “I
don’t know if I want this, but I don’t know why,” to my friends. Conflict is
not something I am comfortable with.
I usually just go with the flow if that
is what makes people around me happy, even if it doesn’t necessarily make
me happy. Let no one say I’m not self-aware, even if that awareness isn’t
exactly doing me any good right now.
“Getting an early start, huh?” comes a voice from the doorway.
I gasp, yanked out of my internal monologue. I spin towards my office
door where one of my best friends and newly appointed law partner Julie
Parker stands. She is balancing a tote bag the size of Texas, a large pink
bakery box, and a tray of to-go coffee cups. She’s wearing cutoffs, an old
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