Choose Me by Lea Coll

Author:Lea Coll
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lea Coll

Chapter 23

I pulled my phone out of my bag after court to messages from Luke.

Talked to Tanner about the text you got. Come see me as soon as you’re done with court.

Hmm . . . come see him. That’s a first. I had never been to the station before. I decided to text first to be sure.

Done with Ct. Still want to meet up?

I walked back to the office and dropped off the morning files on my secretary’s desk to handle closing them out. I glanced back down at my phone as I walked to my office.

Yes, meet me out front of ct in 10

I checked my messages and my cases for the afternoon, then grabbed my purse, and headed downstairs. I was nervous about meeting with him.

I saw him before he saw me. He was leaning back against one of the columns outside. I admired him in his uniform. I had a feeling he wouldn’t be mine to look at after this conversation. I pulled open the door and walked up to him.

“Hey, still allowed to be seen in public with me?” I asked sarcastically. It was definitely the wrong thing to say because he tensed immediately. I hadn’t planned on being defensive with him, it just popped out.

He looked away uncomfortably, “Yeah, we need to talk about that.”

“Great,” I was being snarky but I didn’t care.

“Let’s go somewhere else,” he said as he turned to walk towards Fountain Park and came to a stop in front of one of the benches. There were a few children playing by the fountain and a family having a picnic lunch on the grass, but otherwise it was fairly quiet.

“Well? What’s the verdict?” I asked when he remained standing and didn’t speak. I knew what he was going to say and I wasn’t going to like it.

“I talked to Cam and he doesn’t think it’s a good idea if we are seen together,” he said cautiously.

“Really, so Cam thinks that, huh? What about you? Do you have a mind of your own? You know what, never mind. I don’t care.” I started to walk back towards the courthouse, but Luke jumped in front of my path stopping me.

“What do you mean, you don’t care?”

“We aren’t dating Luke. You don’t owe me anything.” I knew logically that was the case and I didn’t want him to know I cared. I was protecting myself at this point.

He pulled himself up to his full height, “No we weren’t dating.” He ran his fingers through his hair and looked at anything but me.

“Why are you still standing here Luke? We can’t see each other. Fine, now let me go.”

“We still need to talk about that message you received.”

“Oh, we don’t need to talk about anything. I already talked to Officer Green. There’s nothing else to add.”

He looked hurt, “So you want to deal with Tanner now?”

“Yes, you can’t be seen with me remember?” I started to walk around him without waiting for a response and then I stopped short.

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