Max took a swing at Harvey’s drink. “Mmm,
Scotch. A man after my own heart.”
“Hi! I’m sorry for Max’s behavior. She
had to listen to our boss, Han talk about the economics of tampons for 20
minutes.” Caroline said giving Harvey an apologetic hug.
“Yeah, the little bitch had his panties
up in a bunch. But I dominated and had the last say.” Max chimed in cheerily
with Harvey’s drink in hand. Harvey chuckled. Dominated was a word he would
often use and it had patented Harvey Specter written all over it.
He motioned towards the dining area where
they sat and ordered.
Harvey and Caroline did all the ordering,
since they had practically memorized every item in the menu. Caroline was happy
that Harvey suggested the place. It was a hole in the wall eatery with not too
many patrons. It had a rustic and earthy vibe which made it feel homely far
from the overly commercialized high priced food joints in Manhattan.
Max on the other hand, allowed her eyes
to set on something else or rather someone else. She was captivated by the man
in front of her. He was in dark washed denims and a long sleeved waffle shirt
and he was sexy as hell. He could make anything including a potato sack look
sexy, she concluded.
“It goes without saying that we’re in a
bit of a bind.” Harvey started.
Placing himself as a factor in the
occasion was another classic Harvey keeper. Harvey would take responsibility as
he would take credit for a win and
Caroline admired that in him.
“If we’re really doing this, I’ll need
you to fill me in on everything you know. I need information on your father’s
books, properties, dealings, bank accounts, travel itinerary,” he continued.
“Dude! Would you also like her to fill
you in on his daily bowel movements?” Max kidded.
“Max!” Caroline shrieked. Always the
prude, Max and Harvey though.
They continued their conversation with
Max occasionally throwing in a couple of jokes here and there to lighten the
mood. Something she thought Caroline needed so she wouldn’t break down in front
of Harvey. While Caroline was soft and emotional having her world crash down
upon her, Max was immune to the world’s problems and she was Caroline’s rock.
The world had made her cold and weary, thus in a way grounded.
The trio ate up a storm. Max and Caroline
having eaten cheap supermarket ramen almost every day had forgotten what real
food tasted like. As for Harvey, he was just being Harvey, a man with a
voracious appetite who liked to live large.
By the end of the meal, Caroline excused
herself to the ladies room and had left Max alone with Harvey. He looked at her
grinning like a Chestershire cat. She had not forsaken his glass and she was
now on her third round of scotch. Instead of babbling like an idiot as most
intoxicated people would, she could handle her alcohol. The woman could
definitely drink, he thought.
“So Maxi Pad, how much do you know about
the Channings?” Harvey asked referencing her triumph against the capitalism of
feminine hygiene products earlier. If he was pushing through with this case he
needed to be thorough investigating every realm of possibility.
She consumed the scotch as if it were
oxygen and said, “other than Caroline being my roommate and her being
impossible to live with, I actually don’t know a lot about their life story.
Caroline says he’s innocent and oddly enough I believe her.”
“Do you trust her?”
“I do,” she said whole heartedly after
everything they have been through in the past months.
“Caroline has no money now, so why deal
with Malibu Barbie?” He asked blatantly trying to push her buttons like any
good lawyer would do.
“Excuse me?”
“Yeah! You heard me. There’s high probability that Caroline would
never recover her money, so what’s your end game?” He added.
“Listen up buddy! I may not have your
Harvard pedigree, but I do know about gold digging 101 and leeching of to
someone allegedly implicated to a Ponzi scheme isn’t part of it. I wouldn’t
take a cent from the Channings if they had just a dollar or a billion dollars.”
Max said fuming then she did something which surprised Harvey. She started
laughing. Now Harvey was curious.
“What’s so funny?”
“You pulled a Law and Order SVU on me.”
She said punching him playfully in the arm.
“What do you mean?” Harvey asked
pretending to act clueless.
“You know, when the hot lawyer decides to
pulls a fast one and trick the other party to admit their true intentions.” She
explained.
“Am I that good? Honestly, you thinking
that I’m hot piece of ass was all I took from what you said.” He professed
cockily.
“Don’t pout! Well! Actually do pout some
more. It looks cute on you…” He added.
“I’m not cute. Cute is what you use to
describe a kitten unknowingly plungging to its death as it enters an
alligator’s mouth.” He laughed at her dark humor. Max put on an exaggerated
puppy dog expression causing him to laugh even more.
“I’m glad to see that Caroline has a
friend like you.” Harvey whispered in Max’s ear as Caroline entered the room.
“What did I miss?” Her high pitched voice
screeched.
Harvey wondered if Max would tell
Caroline about the verbal assault he had just done to her minutes ago, but instead
she said, “I like this one” pointing at Harvey and continued saying “he’s got
spunk.”
“See! I knew you would like each other.
You have the same twisted sarcastic witty humor,” Caroline retorted.
Harvey signed for the bill and said, “I’ll
have my associate take a look at the evidence and see if we have a case. Then
we can proceed from there.”
“Thank you Harvey! Words cannot express
how much this means to me,” Caroline replied.
“Don’t mention it! You’d do the same for
me,” he winked.
They said their goodbyes and parted ways.
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