Chapter 6 Lawyer Chandler

Catherine's POV

Previously on Lawyer Chandler:

Vincent must have recognized my sudden change of mood and cupped my left cheek lightly with his hand, as if he was about to wipe away my tears.

That moment felt more intimate than a kiss could possibly feel, but before I could get used to the feeling, my phone interrupted us. It was Beth, a friend of mine who send me a picture, that made my tears come back forcefully.

The girl on the picture had a petite frame and shiny brown hair. She looked a lot like JT´s ex- girlfriend Sarah but it also could have been the tears in my eyes, my blurry vision, that made me think of her. But nothing of that was the reason why I cried. In fact she was kissing someone, Manuel.

Vincent saw, how the picture had shocked me and spontaneously hugged my.

"Catherine! Will you let me see it?" he asked concerned.

Vincent and I backed up against the wall in the hallway and closed the door. My legs were too weak and so I slided down the wall, Vincent next to me.

"Is this your boyfriend?" he whispered, as if he was afraid to ask.

"Yeah, that b***! How could he do that to me! I mean…, I, I loved him so much" Her voice trailed off a little and in the end it broke and mixed up with her sobs.

"Oh god, Catherine!" He hugged me again and I let myself fall into his strong arms.

"You need to talk to him, Cat." his mouth was close to my ear and I felt his breath, that send a chill down my spine.

"No, I won't! I'm not going to talk to him tonight. Maybe tomorrow, I think, I need some time to think about it. I'm gonna spend the night at Tess´ or somewhere else…". I pulled away, out of his grip.

I really planned to ask Tess but when I saw her, spending time with Joe, I just couldn't ask her to let my spend the night at her apartment. The look on her face, as if she was truly happy and in love with him… she really deserved it and I wouldn't want to interrupt them.

The truth is that I wanted Tess to spend some ´alone- time´ with Joe since things apparently didn't work out too well in the past and she deserved to be happy with him.

For a second I stood in the middle of he living room, looking at Tess, hesitating.

"You don't ask her?" Vincent appeared next to me.

"I mean…, you can stay at my place! Only if you want to, of coarse…!"

What choice did I have, apart from the fact, that I didn't mind at all?

I surely wouldn't spend the night at home.

His gaze on me was intense and I answered hesitantly:" That would be great!" I smiled a little.

Vincent's POV

Her answer surprised me a little.

"Do you mind if we leave now? Honestly, I'm not feeling well."

I smiled and she quickly waved Tess goodbye, before we left.

At my apartment I opened the door for her and after we took of our coats, I showed her the guest room.

"Wow, that looks comfortable!", she honestly smiled at me. The room was small but cosy with a little beige couch and a bed in it. With the lovely, detailed decoration it would make every visitor feel save and homely.

We stood in the doorframe for a minute, both lost in our thoughts and the moment.

Finally Catherine raised her voice:" Do you mind if I take a shower? After all, what happened today, I need to wash off the day!"

Because all her clothes were at her place I searched for a towel and something for her to wear for the night.

When Tori left, she took all of her stuff with her so I had to look in my closet for an alternative.

I went with a pair of boxer shorts, an old college shirt, because it was smaller, and sweatpants.

"There you go!" The door of the guest room was open and she had sat down on the bed, looking up at me, when I brought her the stuff.

"Thank you." she whispered, lost in her thoughts. She needed space and so I left her alone, grabbing myself a water from the fridge. I would wait, in case that she wanted to talk, the bathroom was now occupied anyways, with her being in the shower.

That was quite a situation I got myself in here. The lawyer, who was supposed to divorce me from my soon-to-be ex- wife stayed at my place, in my clothes, and she was damn beautiful.

Sometimes, when I was with Tori, I imagined, how life would be if we broke up one day. This may sound weird but it's even weirder, that now, when that picture became reality, a woman came into my life, who I could actually imagine myself being with.

This was the great news, and I didn't know how to handle it at all. It's not like it ever happened to me before. With every time my mind trailed off to Catherine, I fell for her a little, and I just couldn't stop thinking about her.

Catherine sat down at the opposite side of the couch and brought me back to reality.

Her brown hair was still wet from showering and she just looked damn sexy in my clothes.

"How are you feeling?" I asked her, to break the silence between us.

"Better, but the picture is still spinning around in my head like crazy. I will talk to Manuel, but I just don't want to be with him anymore. This, our relationship didn't work out lately, and this was just it, I guess." she frowned and looked down shyly, wondering if she might just shared too much with him.

Unfortunately I was the one to understand what she was talking about just perfectly.

"You know, when I found out about Tori… it just made me feel the same way." We smiled at each other, an attempt to give each other some comfort, before I got up to prepare dinner.

"So: are you hungry?"

"No! I guess, the events just took away my appétit."

Catherine's POV

Vincent went to grab himself something to eat, when Manuel called.

"Damn it!" I cursed.

"Catherine?!" he came running back, looking for me.

"Are you ok?" he asked concerned.

"Sorry, it's just, Manuel calls me and I have zero idea how to talk to him"

I let it ring once more. "No! I can't do this right now!" I determinedly cut the call, sat back on the couch and tried to calm down.

Vincent's POV

"Beer?" was my simple question on that. "Beer!" she simply answered and I went to grab two for us. This was exactly, what we needed: waste some time with beer in front of the TV to forget the cheating and the pain from the day. One beer and two hours later she was sound asleep on the couch, her head on a pillow next to my lap. The sofa was surely uncomfortable and I slowly tried to lift her up, without waking her. She shifted in my arms, she whispered some unintelligible words and her face showed the distress she felt.

All I could do was let her sleep and hope, that she would get better soon.

In the morning I got up from my bed and silently went to the kitchen to make breakfast. During the night I heard her wake up a few times from her nightmares.

Today would be her chance to break up with Manuel for good.

All I knew at the moment was, that I cared far too much for my lawyer, sleeping in my guest room.

I was ready to wake her for coffee, but when I reached her door, I heard her curse and m***. She laid on her bed, her legs stretched out as if she was about to get out of it.

"Catherine?" I asked, once, twice. She just didn't react. I gently grabbed her had to feel for her pulse. Weak. I turned her around to make sure that she could breathe without problems and quickly went to my room to get a vial with glucose.

"Hey, What happened to me?" she was awake when I came back.

"I guess, your blood sugar dropped. But now that you are back, a simple breakfast should do. You wait here! " I smiled, set the vial on the night stand and went to the kitchen.

Someone was knocking on the door and interrupted my plans. "I'll just get it, ok?!" I told Catherine through the hallway.

But what I didn't expect was, to find a guy looking suspiciously similar to the man on Catherine's picture.

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