Brett by Leigh Duncan

Author:Leigh Duncan [Duncan, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gardenia Street Publishing
Published: 2018-06-15T05:00:00+00:00

Sea oats and sand dunes lined the path, blocking the night breeze and muffling the sound of the breakers. Stephanie swept a tangle of hair from her face and plowed on, determined to dip her toes in the eddying tide. She would not venture into deeper water where who knew what predators prowled the dark currents. But she needed to stand on the beach, hear the waves thunder ashore and feel salt spray on her face.

Maybe the ocean would give her strength. With over-whelming problems on all sides, she would take help where she could find it.

Thanks to Paul Mason, her career shifted like the sand beneath her feet. As bad as that was, all thought of felonious guards had ceased the moment she spied Brett at Tom and Mary’s. One look through the front window at the tall, muscular cop lying on the ground bouncing the twins on his wide chest had added a whole new dimension to her woes. The man who personified “macho” could be tender with little kids. Who would have guessed? The insight toppled her reservations about him. It had taken every ounce of her dwindling resolve not to throw herself into Brett’s arms and demand that he whisk her away and kiss her until lightning bolts flashed from the sky, or at least give her a call.

Wasn’t this a fine mess?

She stepped onto the wooden observation deck at the end of the last dune. The horizon and the ocean barely sighed beneath the moonless sky. Disappointment drove her to lean heavily against the railing.

Where was the power? Where was the raw fury she had witnessed from this very deck in the days following the hurricane? If she couldn’t draw strength from the ocean, how would she face her situation?

She had the training, she reminded herself. She had the experience and fortitude to deal with the likes of a miscreant guard. Trouble was, by exposing his fraud, she would also be risking her own career…and that meant risking the time she needed to build a relationship with a certain cop.

Turning in Paul Mason was the right thing to do. She knew it.

But could she do it?

“Stephanie.”

The waves whispered her name. The ocean was on her side after all. She straightened, drew in a deep breath of salty air and felt a reserve of her own strength unfurl.

Paul Mason was toast!

“Stephanie.”

Okay, so that wasn’t the ocean talking. She was still strong. She was still capable. She was still…a woman standing alone on the beach in the middle of the night.

She spun to see a tall shadow emerge from the pathway through the dunes. Before her eyes had time to register the image and send it to her brain for decoding, her heart recognized the broad-shouldered silhouette. Her fears hushed.

“Brett.” Problem number two in all his glory. “You nearly scared me to death,” she said as soon as she could breathe. “What are you doing here?”

“I didn’t mean to frighten you. I can leave if you want.”

“No. No, that’s okay.

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