Beautiful Lawman by Sophie Jordan

Author:Sophie Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-12-26T05:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

The asshole was arresting her.

As they walked through the club, all eyes fixed on them and mortification swept through her. Her face burned and it had nothing to do with an irate wife slapping her. She wasn’t in handcuffs, but everyone knew. She might as well be wearing steel bracelets. Piper Walsh was going to jail.

There was a time when she thought this would ultimately be her fate. Turned out, she was right. She might not be going to jail for a heinous crime, but she was headed there nonetheless.

She held her chin high and tried to look dignified, even though she was trailing after Hale like a scolded child. She tried to look composed even though her feet were killing her in her stilettos.

Suddenly Serena was in front of Hale. Hands on her hips, she glared at him. “You’ve got to be kidding? What did she do?”

“Please step aside,” he said evenly, politely, voice void of emotion. It was his cop voice, she realized, and more often than not he didn’t use that voice on her. She wondered what that meant.

Serena’s eyes sought hers over his shoulder. She shook her head in obvious disgust and reached around Hale to hand her a small card. “This is my lawyer. He’s a good guy. For a lawyer. Tell him I referred you.”

Piper took the card, grateful for the gesture if nothing else. She wasn’t completely without people who cared about her. “Thanks.”

“Call me,” Serena said loudly as they continued through the club.

Outside, he walked her to his Bronco, leading her to the passenger side.

Facing him, she held out her hands, wrists close together. “Go ahead,” she invited, her voice ripe with challenge. She knew she could have a more deferential air at this point, but she was pissed and raring for a fight.

“What?” he asked, looking genuinely confused, and that only infuriated her more.

“Cuff me.”

Something danced in his eyes and she felt its echo deep inside her belly, a snap of heat that curled and bloomed. Damn him. Why did he have this effect on her?

She shook her wrists. “Go on. Do it.”

The barest chuckle escaped him, but it was mirthless and grated across her quickly fraying nerves.

“Nothing about this is funny,” she bit out, her temper spiking. “Believe it or not, I’ve never actually been to jail.”

“I know,” he said matter-of-factly.

“Of course you do,” she sneered. One click of the keyboard and he could pull up everything on one Piper Walsh of Sweet Hill, Texas.

Almost as though he read her mind and knew it annoyed her, he said smugly, “I know everything about you, Piper Walsh.”

Not everything.

“You don’t know anything about me,” she countered, leaning in close and stabbing a finger in his rock-solid chest.

He stepped closer, reaching for the door handle, very deliberately brushing his chest against hers. She took a sudden step back, but didn’t get far. Her back collided with the wall of the Bronco.

He was so close she could actually feel his breath on her cheek. Could actually see the striations of navy blue in his gray eyes.

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