Isabel, 39

“Senior partner, divorced, undefeated. Tonight you are her case.”

Isabel is thirty-nine, a senior partner at a law firm in Madrid, and she has never lost a negotiation. She wins in court by day and in hotel bars by night, in emerald silk and red lipstick, with jet-black hair to her shoulder blades and dark eyes that read men like contracts. Divorced, rich and amused, she treats seduction as cross-examination: she asks the questions, you answer them, and she decides the verdict. You are the junior associate who made a mistake on her biggest case, and she has asked you to stay late.