Chapter 4/Game of affection

“Is this all?” Sabrina asked Shawn while looking at some photographs of Arnold and Dean together with a seemingly suspicious guy in sunglasses in a coffee shop just a few meters across to where the Turner organization was located.

“Yeah, they're still investigating, though.” Shawn said, looking at Sabrina who seemed so caught up and occupied with what she's seeing.

“How about these?” Sabrina asked, referring to the silver flash drive and the three tapes placed on Shawn's desk.

“They came with the photographs.” Shawn answered, fixing his gaze back on the scattered papers and photographs placed on his desk.

“Dang it, I don't have my MacBook with me.” Sabrina said looking at the flash drive regretting not bringing her MacBook along with her. 

Who can blame her though, she wasn't expecting this.

“I think I have one here.” Shawn said bending over, probably looking for the MacBook, once he got it out of the drawer he gave it to Sabrina.

“Thanks.” Sabrina said, taking it then moving to the other desk on Shawn's office because she was weirded by the fact that she was sitting in her client's office desk on his own company.

Once she reached the other desk, she immediately turned on the MacBook and plugged the flash drive.

There were 10 videos in it, all of them looked like they were recorded by a CCTV camera and each video contained 3 to 7 minutes duration footages.

Sabrina finished watching all of them within an hour, completely forgetting the exhaustion and sleepiness that she was feeling. Only seven of the videos can be considered as evidence because the other three were just too weak to be represented during trials.

Sabrina knew how valuable these files are, and she also knew that they cannot afford to lose them.  

She duplicated some copy using the flash 

drives that Shawn gave her earlier so in case that something happens to the original one, they won't lose the evidence before finally shifting her eyes off the MacBook.

She then stood up and organized the papers and the photos that Shawn told her to organize.

Once all the work was done, Sabrina went back to the other desk and sat back closing her eyes, she stayed like that for a few minutes before opening her eyes again and that's when she saw a sleeping Shawn on the couch. 

She totally forgot about him.

She kept staring at him, taking his figure from head to toe, and that's when she noticed the dark circles under his eyes.

Even though he looked like that he just stayed up for 48 hours without sleeping and stress is evident on his face, he was still gorgeous.

Sabrina scoffed at that. Unfair, she thought to herself.

She was extremely focused on him that she didn't even notice that just one move backwards from the chair that she was sitting, she might fall.

And that's exactly what happened.

“Son of a-” Sabrina didn't even get the chance to finish her sentence.

“Sabrina?” Shawn spoke confused, looking at Sabrina on the ground. “Are you okay?” He added.

“Yeah, I just fell.” She said, standing up as Shawn chuckled.

“I fell asleep, didn't I?” Shawn asked yawning while sitting back on the couch feeling a little bad that he left Sabrina to do all the work.

“Yeah, tired much?” Sabrina responded, yawning too.

“Sort of, how did it go?” Shawn asked again talking about the evidences while looking at a tired Sabrina sitting on the chair of the other desk.

“Oh I've organized them, the ones on the blue envelope are the paper documents, the yellow one contains the videotapes and the flash drives, while the purple one contains the photographs.” Sabrina answered.

“That was fast.” He chuckled looking at Sabrina's face down to her jaw and her neck and to her, almost exposed chest. This time she was only wearing a sports bra under her semi-casual shirt and yes, the upper buttons of the shirt were left unbuttoned!

That alone made Shawn's mind go to sinful places. Unfortunately, his dirty thoughts were interrupted by Sabrina snapping her fingers.

“Like what you see?” Sabrina said with a smirk.

And that's when realization hit him.

He's going to spend a lot of time with her starting from now until the case is over.  A game of affection will be ignited between the two of them and only one of them can win, and the loser would be hurt terrible.

And he can tell that Sabrina is aware of this.

Shawn cleared his throat and put his serious face back. “Thanks for helping me, Ms. Clarke and I'm deeply sorry again for disturbing your evening, I promise that I'll make it up to you” He spoke attempting to change the topic and fortunately enough, she understood the hint.

“No need to make it up to me, Mr. Turner, I promised you resilience, and I'm just giving you resilience.” She spoke professionally as if she didn't just seduced him mere moments ago.

“Oh well, since we're done for the night, what do you want to do now?” Shawn asked, tracing patterns on his tattoo in his left arm.

“I just want to sleep,” She responded with her eyes closed. “I got a question, though.” Sabrina added and Shawn just hummed in response, signaling her to go on.

“Why do we have to do this now? I'm not complaining though,” Sabrina said with her eyes still shut. “I Know You're a busy guy and I too myself have a lot of things to do but is it really impossible to met tomorrow so I can help you with this?” She added.

“Well, I forgot to mention that I also hired another lawyer to work with you, and the reason we can't do this tomorrow is because I have to give him the evidences that you organized first thing in the morning before leaving for a business meeting in La Jara." Shawn spoke, looking at her.

“I thought you were giving me the evidences.” Sabrina said after hearing what Shawn just said.

“I just want you to focus on the evidences that you showed me earlier, and I also want you to stick with my undercovers and get evidences from them to connect to the case.” Shawn said.

“Okay, when can I meet them?” Sabrina asked. 

“Next week,” he said, “We all need to met and start working on this case as a team.” He added again.

“We sure do, and I'm guessing that you also signed a non-exclusive contract with your other lawyer.” Sabrina said after knowing that she isn't going to be alone in solving this case.

“Yeah, I think you might know him because he too is working in Zachary Madison's firm.” Shawn said.

“Really? What's his name?” She asked somewhat interested.

“Scott Lindsay Ackerman.”