Best Friends by Cat Blaine

Author:Cat Blaine [Blaine, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

“You’re both cops?” Amanda’s eyes were wide as she stared at me. “Have you ever shot anyone?”

Everybody always asked that. “No.” I watched her face fall.

“I have,” Malcolm piped up, one brow cocked. “Robbery suspect pulled a piece on me and I had to discharge my weapon.”

He was acting cavalier about the incident. But I remembered how upset he’d been afterward. The perp had lived, but Malcolm had second-guessed his reactions. Nobody official had questioned the shooting, but Malcolm had been super rattled.

“My hero.” Cecilia rested her head on Malcolm’s shoulder, and my stomach clenched.

I turned back to Amanda, hoping to distract myself. She was pretty with jade green eyes and long hair the color of autumn leaves. She was just the kind of girl I’d have been into usually. But I seemed unable to feel anything physical toward her. I liked her. She seemed sweet and intelligent, but I couldn’t muster even a hint of lust toward her.

“What do you do?” I asked.

“I teach English.” She watched me as if waiting for a reaction.

I grimaced. “Uh, oh.”

Laughing, she said, “God, don’t clam up on me. Everybody always freaks out and thinks I’m judging them the second they find out what I teach.”

“Oh, God. Right?” Cecilia jumped in. “I’m a psychologist and everyone assumes I’m psychoanalyzing them. The truth is I just want to forget all about that crap when I’m not working.” Cecila clinked glasses with Malcolm. “I just want to have fun.”

“Amen, sista.” He grinned at her.

I guess he was getting into the spirit of things much better than me. He was effortlessly flirting, and touching her. I felt irritable and tired watching him dote on her. What the fuck was wrong with me? Had I lost the ability to be normal ever again?

“You probably get that too, though,” Amanda guessed, watching me with her cheerful green gaze. “People immediately get nervous around cops. We think you magically know if we’ve done something wrong.”

Smiling, I nodded. “True. People do get weird. But unless you run a red light in front of me, I won’t know about it.”

“Did you investigate me on your police computer?” Amanda asked, twisting her hair around her finger. “You know, to see if I had any outstanding warrants?”

“No. That’s definitely frowned on.” I sipped my drink, hoping it would help me loosen up. I was as tense as if I was at a damn job interview. “Unless you’ve broken the law it would be pretty unethical of me to spy on your personal business.”

She put her delicate hand on my arm. “I wouldn’t mind.”

Oh, God. She was flirting with me. Well of course she was. We were on a date. She was the normal one. I just laughed like I thought she was joking and gulped more of my beer. I tried not to fixate on Malcolm and Cecilia, but my gaze seemed drawn to them.

“Have you and Malcolm always been best friends?” Amanda asked.

“Yep,” Malcolm answered before I could. “C. was my neighbor growing up.

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