"I just want what's mine," Naomi said patiently. "You could take him for all he's worth!" I insisted. "He didn't sign a prenup and the bastard deserves to pay for his years of infidelity and abuse!"
"Aaron, I appreciate your outrage on my behalf, but I just want out and I want to take my personal assets with me, that's it. As my attorney, it should be an easy job for you." She smiled her sexy smile and I wondered for the hundredth time, what kind of asshole divorced a woman like Naomi?
"He put you in the hospital!" I growled.
"And I recovered. I know it sounds like a total cliché, but he didn't mean to push me down the stairs. It was an accident. Emotional and verbal abuse was always more of Nathan's style. Physical abuse is a little too blue collar for him. I think the accident made him realize it was time to call it quits."
"I still don't understand why he is the one divorcing you. It should be the other way around." I frowned, completely amazed by this woman. Yeah, I had a crush on her. I wasn't afraid to admit it either. She was hot, smart, sexy and confident and she had a quiet self-assurance that most women in her shoes just didn't have. In all my years as a divorce lawyer, I'd never once been attracted to any of my clients.
When Naomi walked into my office the first time, it was like an instant hard on that still hadn't gone away.
"I got complacent," She sighed, settling back in her chair with a faraway look on her face.
"When we were first married, I was still in school. The emotional abuse started slowly and built up over time. By the time I was in my residency, I just didn't care anymore and I was focused on becoming the best surgeon I could be. I should have left him a long time ago; but it was just easier to stay. I always thought I'd deal with it later but I guess I waited too long." She shrugged her delicate shoulders and I was once again awed by her strength.
"Now, he is claiming that a portion of my earnings as a surgeon belong to him since he paid for my education."
"Nathan has more money than Croesus, what does he want with yours?"
"I suppose he is doing it to get back at me for not being upset about his infidelity and the divorce. He thought I'd be crushed and when I wasn't, it was a huge hit to his ego. Now he's furious—even more so now that he's seen how much money I have that he never knew about. I knew it was coming to this, and I wanted to protect myself, so I made some good investments and put most of my earnings into savings," she said.
"Now he thinks he deserves a portion of that since his income allowed you to grow your own fortune." I frowned. This wasn't the first time I'd seen a scenario like this; but it was the first time I'd seen a jilted ex-wife-to-be, willingly walk away from an opportunity to take it all. With his infidelity and abuse, she could easily leave him with nothing.
"Is it feasible Aaron?" She asked.
"Feasible? To walk away with only your assets? Yeah, it's feasible...downright insane and foolhardy, but yeah I can make the deal."
"Thank you." She smiled. "What do you need from me?"
"Dinner." I grumbled, it was going to be a long night and I was starving. "There's a pile of menus over there, order whatever you want and we'll get to work going over your assets.
"Aaron! There's nothing but pizza and Thai menus over here!" She chuckled softly as she sifted through the large stack of takeout menus I kept at my office.
"Your point?" I grinned.
"When's the last time you ate real food?"
"If that eliminates all food that comes in a cardboard box, it's been a very long while," I frowned playfully.
"That's it, next meeting is at my house and I'm cooking." She insisted and I didn't have it in me to refuse such an intimate gesture.
Sometimes I thought she might be flirting with me, but I was nothing if not a professional and I was trying very hard not to act on it.
In the end she ordered some vegan pizza crap that I was convinced the box it came in might taste better.
"I'll put the documents together and we can go over them next week at your place," I said as evenly as I could manage. Since she mentioned it, I wanted nothing more than to see her in her own environment and I was very much looking forward to a more casual evening with the lovely Naomi. ~
Yeah, I'm screwed, I thought as I left her apartment, after dinner at Naomi's turned into naked breakfast at Naomi's. Turned out she was just as hot for me as I was for her. We spent the evening reviewing the documentation for her case and after a damn fine home cooked meal, the wine began to flow and one thing led to another, and I was kissing her.
I tried to leave it at that, but she led me back to her bedroom. She told me it had been a very long time since she felt anything for her husband, and even longer since they'd had sex. The divorce was just the last thing she needed to move on with her life.
Sex with Naomi was even more amazing than I could have imagined. She was such a passionate, sexy woman, I was easily caught up in the moment and it wasn't just a fun fling for me. I had feelings for her...hence the "I'm so screwed" part. I still had to be her lawyer and I knew I was going to have a hard time keeping my personal feelings out of it. ~ "My client simply wants to walk away from the marriage with her personal assets and the few belongings we've specified. She is willing to relinquish her right to half the martial assets considering there is no prenup. She is being very generous in light of the infidelity and abuse which I have counseled her into pursuing everything."
"Well now Aaron, you're just being a little presumptuous aren't you?" Dean, my opposing counsel, guffawed as if I'd said something completely ludicrous.
"Come on Dean you know as well as I, there are hospital records and a police report that can verify the abuse and he didn't even try to hide his infidelity!" I growled, feeling a little more aggressive than I normally do in these situations.
"These are my client's terms, take it or leave it."
"We'll review the terms and counter with our own." Dean relented and we quickly adjourned.
"Did that go well or was it a complete disaster?" Naomi frowned as we left together. "I couldn't tell."
"Neither, it was a typical first meeting. They'll review every line of our proposal and come back with a counter offer and then we'll do the same. Eventually we will reach an agreement. It may not have seemed like much, but we made progress today."
