APB by Julie Miller

Author:Julie Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Answers were not to be found at the crime lab.

Lucy watched while Niall made phone calls and ran tests and accessed computers, but apparently forensic science, while it worked miracles in many ways, moved at a much slower pace than she expected. Results were coming in due time, Niall promised. But his patient attention to detail made her feel as if she was suffering from ADHD. Or perhaps, with Tommy asleep and Niall running tests and consulting with the CSIs and lab technologists in the building, while Lucy had nothing to do but pace, she only felt useless and isolated and not able to do one small thing to help find Diana. Even knitting was out of the question, since everything in her bag had gotten soaked with the rain and would need time to dry out before she could finish Tommy’s cap or start any other project.

New locks for Lucy’s front door couldn’t be found, either, at least not until the entire door frame could be replaced. Which meant another night of sleeping on Niall’s couch, fixing breakfast together, changing the dressing on her stitches, reminding Niall to put his books away and get some rest. She enjoyed a surprise visit from Duff and Keir with a pizza, loving how Niall murdered all three of them in the most competitive game of penny-ante poker she’d ever played. The next day she enjoyed the tour of Thomas Watson’s big two-story house even more when they went over to help move furniture, install a ramp, and share a big pot of Millie’s chili and cornbread around a long farmhouse table. She and Niall took turns feeding, diapering and playing with Tommy and wrestling him away from pseudo uncles and wannabe grandparents.

It was forty-eight hours of the family life she’d always dreamed of—and she had to constantly remind herself that it wasn’t real. Lucy and Niall were just friends. Neighbors. Two concerned adults who’d joined forces to care for and protect an abandoned child.

Domestic bliss this wasn’t. Not really. It hurt to discover herself feeling so at home with Niall’s boisterous family, knowing all the while their laughter and friendship and support was just a temporary gift. It hurt even more to realize how easily her attraction to her handsome, geeky neighbor had grown into something deeper. She was becoming as addicted to Niall’s quiet strength as Tommy was, and Niall’s fierce devotion to a cause—her cause—gave her a sense of security and importance she’d never felt before.

What an idiot. She’d fallen in love with the brilliant doctor next door. And since love wasn’t something that could be examined under a microscope or explained in twenty questions, she knew that Niall was sweetly clueless to the depth of her feelings for him. As for what he might feel for her? Since he scarcely acknowledged his feelings about much beyond his work and family, that was as much of a mystery as locating Diana and identifying the young man who’d threatened her in the elevator, then assaulted her when she’d refused to heed his warning.

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