Bowles, Jan - Tamed by the Dom [Guilty Pleasures 3] (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic)

Author:Jan Bowles [Bowles, Jan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2011-06-06T18:49:52+00:00

Chapter Ten

One month later

Saturday night was in full swing at Club Fusion. Occasionally, the steady beat of music would drift through to where Kat worked on reception. There was always something to attend to, coats to collect, and cabs to call. The complimentary business cards were looking a little depleted, and she leaned down to retrieve a fresh batch from the cupboard below her desk.

Aware that someone had walked up to reception, she called out, “Just a moment, and I’ll be right with you.” When she stood back up, her eyes widened as she came face to face with the law. She felt a little shell-shocked but tried not to let it show. “Sheriff Bunty, it’s been a long time, what can I do for you?” Kat remembered him well. When she’d been a young girl, he’d featured a lot in her life because he’d constantly been sniffing around her mother. She guessed she’d always known, even as a child, that Sheriff Bunty and her mother had been intimately involved. Twenty-five years ago, Sheriff Bunty had a young wife and two children of his own. She’d always had a low opinion of the local lawman.

His eyes scanned her from head to toe. Kat wore a low cut dress that displayed her breasts to good effect, and she couldn’t help noticing, Sheriff Bunty let his gaze linger a little longer than necessary on her exposed cleavage. “Kat, you’re right, it has been a long time. Almost eighteen years I reckon.” He lifted his hat from his head momentarily. “I’m real sorry to hear about your mother. She was a lovely, gentle lady.”

Kat nodded. “Yes, she was, but I didn’t see you at the funeral, Sheriff.”

“Public duties prevented it. I did send some flowers, wrote the card myself, too.”

Kat remembered the bouquet of flowers placed on her mother’s casket with the simple words, You’ll be greatly missed, all my respect, Abe. It was hardly a great send-off for someone who’d shared her mother’s bed for the best part of ten years.

“I heard you were working here,” he said after a long pause.

“That’s right,” she answered defensively. She’d never trusted the cops and least of all Sheriff Bunty. “There’s not a law against working here is there, Sheriff?”

“That depends on what you do here.” He looked smug as he studied her.

Aware that he’d just insulted her, she smiled sweetly. It wouldn’t do to sound off. “I don’t need to justify myself to you, Sheriff.”

“I’d just like to take a look around.”

“Why?”

“I’d like to see that everything is legal and aboveboard.” Colt had warned her that the potbellied lawman had been making a nuisance of himself. She figured, as Fairfax was a pretty law abiding town, the old guy just had time on his hands and most likely dropped in to Club Fusion on the off chance of seeing some young naked flesh.

“You got a warrant, Sheriff?” She knew the guests wouldn’t like a cop in uniform snooping around. Many of them did not want their real identity known, choosing to use pseudonyms instead.

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