Chapter Four Phin had lied about having another appointment because he’d needed to get Emily out of his office. She presented too much of a temptation to him, which bothered him immensely. He wasn’t the type of guy who was easily tempted. He kept to himself, and it had worked for twenty-eight years of his life. When he sat down heavily in his office chair, he stared at nothing for a long moment. Until a voice broke through his disordered thoughts. “Who’s the new client?” Katherine, Phin’s coworker and only real friend within the office, sat down on the edge of his desk with a smile. Happily married with kids, Katherine was somehow convinced that everyone else needed the same things in life to be happy. Phin, however, had so far resisted her best efforts to pair him up with one of her g

