Babies And Badges (American Baby) by Laura Marie Altom

Author:Laura Marie Altom [Altom, Laura Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Family & Domestic Life, Young Children-Twin Daughters, Lawman, Law Enforcement, County Sheriff, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Mother-To-Be, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Lifetime Love, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Small Town & Rural Area, Cowboy & Western Romance, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure
Publisher: Harlequin American Romance Classic; Original edition
Published: 2014-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“Wow,” Cassie said, catching the cascading sheet of chocolate from her dip cone before it landed on her clean shirt. “This is good—I’ve never had one before—but hazardous.”

“Tell me about it,” he said, licking the edge of his cone to catch stray drips. He eyed the babies who were sound asleep in their carriers. “I thought they’d like a cone, too, but I guess this mission was a little premature.”

“You think?” She shot him a grin.

“Well, hey, at least one good thing came out it.”

“What’s that?”

“I got you to try another form of junk food, and from the looks of it, you’re enjoying it.”

“Am not,” she said though an extra-large, wafer-thin section of chocolate.

Noah swallowed hard even though he currently didn’t have a drop of ice cream in his mouth.

Cass had closed her eyes on her lick around the cone. In the process driving him wild with her darting pink tongue. He squeezed his eyes shut. What the woman did to him with just one of those innocent smiles should be criminal.

“Noah?”

“Huh?”

“You okay?”

“Ah, sure, why wouldn’t I be?”

“I don’t know, but while you’ve been staring at me, your ice cream just dripped down your sleeve.”

“Aw, hell,” he said, eyeing the goopy spill. Snatching a wad of napkins from the dispenser on the table, he said, “Guess my mind was a million miles away.”

“Thinking ’bout work?”

I wish! “Nah…Just stuff.”

“What kind of stuff?”

Oh, things like how much I’d like to try kissing you again, but how you being a new mommy and all, makes you off limits. And how I have no right to even be thinking such impure thoughts, but that lately, I can’t seem to help it.

He shrugged. “You know. Stuff.”

“Sure.” She licked again.

“What?” he asked when she still hadn’t wiped that stricken look from her face.

“I miss you, that’s all.”

“What do you mean? I’m right here.”

Finishing off her cone, she shook her head. “You haven’t been with me since the first time we kissed.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“You tell me.”

“Aw, geez.” He looked across the room to see Zane up to his usual no good. Using a pocketknife, he was painstakingly carving something into Brenda’s varnished oak tabletop. Around these parts, a right of passage. Shoot, Noah had his own name linked with Vicki Hayes’s inside the confines of a crudely carved heart over on table fifteen. But seeing how Zane was already carrying a full load of trouble, and his fingertips were still stained neon green from the spray paint that’d been used to give the bronze statue of Riverdale’s first mayor a new toupee, and seeing how Cass’s invasive stare had long since put him on edge, he said, “Hang tight. Duty calls.”

“What’s wrong?” she asked, following his gaze.

“See that kid?”

“Yeah.”

“He’s trouble.”

Just as Noah slid out of the booth, Zane looked up, knife still in hand.

Easing past the chairs of the few thankfully oblivious afternoon diners, Noah slid onto the booth seat across from Zane, and before the boy knew what hit him, he took the knife from his hand, folded it, then raised up to slip it into his right front pocket.

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