Sloane is still wearing his ring, and, in widower's fashion, Emily's, which he has done since her death, but that is immaterial to what Lilah is suggesting. It has been a while - Judy Barnett, to be precise, which didn't exactly set the best precedence for mixing business with pleasure - and Lilah Morgan is both very attractive and definitely not the type of woman he falls in love with, which is something in her favour. He has never managed to fall out of love with anyone, and as he has no intention to offer Lilah Morgan that kind of power over him, he would withdraw at the first suspicion she could be more than a useful and clever aquaintance.
"Undoubtedly you can,"
Sloane replies, returning her toast.
"You strike me as a creative woman as well."
Which is neither a yes or a no to her unspoken question. They might end up in bed at some point if she wants, because she is rather attractive and he's middle-aged, not dead, but it is neither the reason nor a condition for hiring her as his lawyer.
"Creativity, of course, should be properly appreciated. I'm afraid the US goverment would be rather unappreciative of some reminders of my time in Europe. They might even call them unpatriotic. But I do want them taken care of. I'm sentimental that way. Do you think you can do that, Ms Morgan?"
There is always the chance that she's a plant. Arvin Sloane has sent pretty young women to fool ego-ridden powerful men with secrets often enough to be aware of that possibility. If she is, the first things he'll tell her, some of his secret accounts, won't give her much rope to try and hang him with. If she isn't, and doesn't have the patience to wait for more, she's also not the right person. If she has the patience and deals with the accounts in an imaginative and clever way, he'll go one step further and have that conversation about the Wolfram and Hart Rambaldi artifacts and manuscripts with her.
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"Undoubtedly you can,"
Sloane replies, returning her toast.
"You strike me as a creative woman as well."
Which is neither a yes or a no to her unspoken question. They might end up in bed at some point if she wants, because she is rather attractive and he's middle-aged, not dead, but it is neither the reason nor a condition for hiring her as his lawyer.
"Creativity, of course, should be properly appreciated. I'm afraid the US goverment would be rather unappreciative of some reminders of my time in Europe. They might even call them unpatriotic. But I do want them taken care of. I'm sentimental that way. Do you think you can do that, Ms Morgan?"
There is always the chance that she's a plant. Arvin Sloane has sent pretty young women to fool ego-ridden powerful men with secrets often enough to be aware of that possibility. If she is, the first things he'll tell her, some of his secret accounts, won't give her much rope to try and hang him with. If she isn't, and doesn't have the patience to wait for more, she's also not the right person. If she has the patience and deals with the accounts in an imaginative and clever way, he'll go one step further and have that conversation about the Wolfram and Hart Rambaldi artifacts and manuscripts with her.