Angel Cafe
Chapter One
Katerina Piretti was a small woman, and the dense weight of the Wagner file was commensurate with Mr. Wagner's great importance to the firm. Kat lugged it from her credenza to her desk, barely noting that the late April sky outside her office window had progressed from a pink-streaked dawn into a full-blown day. Muffled footsteps trod the carpeted hallways of Harper, Madigan and Horn. The attorneys trickled in, the earliness of their arrivals depending partly on their workloads and partly on how far down the firm's letterhead they were. Kat had beaten everyone in that morning, as she did nearly every morning. She'd been associated with the firm for only eight months, which meant she received enough plodding research projects to keep her billable hours well above the firm average.
Eight months of real-life law. She knew Harper, Madigan and Horn's law library so well that she could file away regional digests faster than the librarian could. She required daily amounts of coffee large enough to fill a small garden pond. Every other week she received a healthy paycheck. One of these days she hoped to find time to spend it.
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