Cass Leary, 离开了芝加哥，放弃了大律所合伙人的事业。她该何去何从？
Rain pelted my windshield, leaving thick streaks in my field of vision where the wiper blades caught. I should have replaced them before I made this drive. But I never did things like that anymore. Not for ten years.
Since the day the Thorne Law Group hired me as a junior associate, I had my own driver if I wanted it. Company cars. A Lexus. No need to do mundane tasks like oil changes or even pumping my own gas. By the time I made partner three years ago, I had a corner office in one of the most coveted office buildings in Chicago. Now, with each mile I put behind me going east on I-94, the trappings of my old life slipped away.
Two hundred and fifty-two miles. The distance between my old life and my new. No ... that wasn’t it. Chicago had been my new life. My second chance. My flipped script. Or at least, that’s what I’d told myself all those years ago when I severed the ties that threatened to drag me down.
The green-and-white road sign for Exit 159A loomed to my right, the left corner chipped off and rusted. I could keep going. Ann Arbor, Detroit, maybe even further east or over the Ambassador Bridge into Canada. It didn’t have to be this way.
Except I knew it did. As the pieces of my life shattered and reformed, I recognized the shape almost instantly. There was only one place left for me to go. I took the exit to the old highway that would bring me back. Gripping the steering wheel, my heart flipped as my headlights caught the big green sign on the side of the road.
James, Robin. Burden of Truth (Cass Leary Legal Thriller Series Book 1) (pp. 4-5). Robin James Books. Kindle Edition.
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