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“Yes, Mr. O’Malley?”

“Would you have dinner with me tonight?”

Becky blinked. Surely she hadn’t heard him correctly. “Excuse me?” she said, and tried to ignore the warm flush climbing up her chest.

“I asked if you’d go out with me tonight.”

The court audience leaned forward, eagerly anticipating her response.

Will O’Malley was, without a doubt, the best-looking defendant who’d ever stood before her. The fact that he’d pleaded guilty straight up—rather than offer a host of excuses—impressed her. But he was a defendant and strictly off-limits.

Furious that her body was telling her one thing, while her brain told her another, Becky answered him more harshly than she’d intended. “No, Mr. O’Malley, I won’t,” she said and slammed down her gavel. “Get out of my court!”