Chapter 261

Aria's POV After sending the lawyer off, I couldn't resist texting Lillian immediately: "Babe, the lawyer got me $33,000 in compensation! And he got you over $2,000 too!" Lillian, who was pretending to work at her office, let out an involuntary gasp when she saw my message. "Everything okay over there?" her coworker asked, clearly thinking she'd had some brilliant marketing epiphany. "Yeah, just stubbed my toe," she texted back. I could practically see her rubbing her nose awkwardly—her classic tell when she's lying. Her coworker's voice came through in her next message: "Damn, I thought you'd cracked our new product campaign already!" "As if! Still researching!" she'd replied. Once she'd gotten rid of her nosy colleague, Lillian's excitement exploded across my screen: "HOLY SHIT!!! That's what Aiden's lawyer can do! LMAO I can just picture that arrogant store owner's face when he got the legal notice! I'm blocking his number RIGHT NOW!" My mood had lifted considerably after listening