Billionaire Romance: Interracial Romance BWWM: Billionaire Daddy (African American Pregnancy Romance Short Stories) (BBW Fun Contemporary Multicultural Mature Young Adult Love and Romance Books) by Destiny West

Author:Destiny West
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2016-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

Maddie showed up to work the next day, her soft voice clear of a cough. Katherine handed her the reports from the day before—ticket stubs, car maintenance—and filled her in on what she’d missed.

“Eighty-seven?” Maddie gaped, reading the copy of the ticket. “Speeding down Fortress Street?”

“Yup,” Katherine nodded, typing away at the computer. “He’s Richard’s brother.”

Maddie whipped her head to glance at the police chief’s empty office. “Our Richard?” she asked. Katherine just nodded. “Holy…” Maddie shook her head, her red bangs flying against her pale forehead. “Man, I’ve got to stop taking sick days. Shit always happens when I’m not around.”

More like sick weeks. “You feel better though?” Katherine asked, giving her partner a sideways glance as she set a document to print.

“Don’t give me that look,” Maddie waved her off. “I’m fine—not infectious at all.”

Katherine scoffed, but didn’t otherwise comment. Maddie had always had the odd habit of catching colds – at least, she had since Katherine had been moved to uptown as her partner six months ago. For a good while, the constant call outs had led Katherine to believe that Maddie was just as soft and green as the rest of her new coworkers; a lazy bunch, the lot of them. Maddie herself came from one of the old families, after all – why on earth would she ever take the force seriously?

It was only after a few months that Katherine finally decided to do something about it. She knew where Maddie lived, where most of the rich cops lived: in a house around Jameson Park, overlooking the city. Katherine knocked on her door, surprised but not discouraged when Maddie’s husband, Mark, answered it instead. He led her to their bedroom where an unconscious Maddie was lying down, breathing hard with a scorching fever.

“It’s not that she’s sickly,” Mark had tried to explain. “But—”

“But she’s sickly,” Katherine had finished for him.

Mark had paused before nodding. He was a tall man, thin and lanky, but in that moment he had seemed rather small. “She’s so hard headed. I can’t watch her all the time,” he said, wringing his hands.

“I’ll keep an eye on her,” Katherine had promised.

“Anyway,” Maddie said, bringing Katherine back to the present, “I’m driving tonight.”

Katherine raised an eyebrow. “Are you?”

The two left at midnight, three hours after the start of their shift. Maddie took the keys and ran to the driver’s side, leaving Katherine to roll her eyes and walk to the passenger door. It wasn’t that Katherine always drove; it was just that, normally, Maddie wasn’t feeling up to it. Something about her nausea, not that Katherine was one to pry. She didn’t mind driving, even if it meant that Maddie was only going to fiddle with the radio all night long.

Honestly, though, it was nice to relax and let Maddie do all the work for a change.

Maddie drove them around for the entire shift, not that there was much to drive for. They’d finally gotten a call from dispatch around six a.

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