Cuffed Love by MINK

Author:MINK
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MINK
Published: 2020-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

10

Declan Smith

She’s hurt. No, that’s not true. I hurt her. My actions.

How many governments, businesses, meetings, international summits have I disrupted? I’ve controlled thousands of protestors, organized chaos campaigns that brought entire cities to their knees. But now? Now I feel like shying away from doing the easiest job I’ve ever gotten. All because of Chrissy Darling.

I’m questioning myself. Something I never do.

And who is Deputy Glen? Harper didn’t mention any other law enforcement in town, and I’m certain I would’ve noticed the bruiser Claire keeps describing.

“Whoa!” I stumble and almost trip over the same cat I found earlier. Catching myself against the short fence next to the sidewalk, I look back at him. “Buddy, you can’t keep doing this. Someone else is going to think you’re dead and scoop you up with a shovel.”

He flicks his tail and gets to his feet.

“You need a bath.” I sigh and drop to my haunches to pet him. “Badly.”

He purrs, apparently not big on personal hygiene.

“Do you know Chrissy Darling?” I scratch behind his ears. “I thought I did. I mean, I prepared a file on her before I came here. But now, I think maybe I didn’t dig deep enough.” I stand, my decision already made. Maybe the only way for me to do this job is to get a better grip on the sheriff. A purely professional endeavor, of course.

I waggle my finger at the cat. “No more playing dead, okay?”

He twitches his tail, then bounds off down the sidewalk toward town at an awkward gait. But he’s moving, at least. So that’s a win.

My phone vibrates, and I pull it from my pocket as I head up the hill to the bed and breakfast.

“Mr. Harper.” I answer.

“You’re fired.”

I stop. “What?” I’ve never been fired from a job.

“She’s made you. You were at the sheriff’s station in cuffs! When I hired you, it was because I was told you were the best, but all I’ve seen is a bumbling fool!”

“You tell him, Dad.” I hear a younger man in the background, as if I’m on speaker phone. It’s Bradley, no doubt. Chrissy said he’d hurt people. Did he hurt her? My grip tightens on the phone.

“What did you do to Sheriff Darling?” I keep my voice even.

“What?” Mr. Harper barks.

“I’m talking to Bradley. What did you do to her?”

“I didn’t do shit.” The son is clearly cut from the same idiotic cloth as the father. He sounds closer now. “Her and her uppity friend have hated me since high school. Not my problem.”

“Why?”

“Why do you care?” His sniveling tone puts murder in my veins, but I’m not a killer, I remind myself.

“Just curious. They seem to think you’ve hurt them.” I know he did. Chrissy wouldn’t lie.

“I didn’t hurt those bitches. They wish I would’ve touched them. Get this. One time I tried to do them a favor and tell people that we had a threesome to try and help with their popularity. You know what they did? They called me a liar.

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