Christmas Medley by Del Robertson

Author:Del Robertson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love, anthology, christmas, lesbian, santa, santa claus, medley
Publisher: Affinity Ebook Press NZ Ltd

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Tanner sat in the leather office chair and swiveled back and forth. Patience wasn’t a strong suit for her. She’d called Margie to see if she’d had luck obtaining the ID. Margie told her that after she fed little Harold, she would bring it by.

“Hey, Tanner. How come you’re here on your day off?” Paul strolled into the station.

Tanner’s initial reaction was to tell him, “none of your fucking business,” but he was a nice kid. Juliet kept telling her she needed to be nicer to him because he worshipped the ground she walked on, and followed her around like a little puppy.

She thought it might be time to introduce him to the gray areas in police work, without taking it too far. Besides they were perfectly within their legal right to conduct the search. She didn’t think the kid had it in him to follow in her footsteps, or Cisco’s. Both of them tended to push the envelope. There wasn’t anything gray about becoming a low-life’s judge, jury, and executioner. That was all black, a dark horror, and very few were privy to that secret. Cisco, her brother in blue, had finally managed to introduce her to the sanctioned group of law enforcement officers who outright broke the rules and she’d fit right in.

“Margie’s worried about a new resident of our fine town, who is frankly a bit suspicious. I’m going to run a background check on him. We don’t need a pedophile in our nice little town, now do we?”

“But…but…don’t we need a court order or his permission to do that?”

“No. We aren’t doing it for personal reasons. We’re doing it because a concerned citizen brought odd behavior to our attention. Didn’t that rinky dink academy you went to teach you anything?”

“I could wait for Margie and run it for you?” Paul offered.

“Nah, I have a job for you that I think you’ll like. Juliet is at the pharmacy looking for Christmas lights or something, and she needs a ride to the station. I’ll stay back and wait for Margie while you go pick her up and bring her back here.”

Paul bounced on his toes and smiled. “I can do that for you, Tanner.”

Tanner mockingly scowled at Paul. “I better not hear that you were flirting with her.”

“Aw, Tanner, she doesn’t even know anyone but you exists. At least, not in that way. Sure, I know she pays attention to everyone in town…she’s like the most observant person besides you…aw…you know what I mean.”

“Relax, I’m just teasing you.” Tanner chuckled. “Juliet is a hard person to ignore, even when she’s trying to be in stealth mode.”

“I’m real excited for the wedding. You guys are good together. Besides, she makes you be nice to me.”

“Nobody makes me do anything I don’t want to do,” Tanner huffed. “Okay, maybe she has a little bit of influence, but that’s not the same thing.”

“I’ll just go pick her up right now, okay?”

“Yeah, yeah, go ahead.”

Tanner leaned her head back on the chair and was about to take a short nap, when she heard the happy gurgling sounds of baby Harold.

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