Detective on the Hunt by Marilyn Pappano

Author:Marilyn Pappano
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-09-10T17:36:16+00:00

Chapter 6

Beautiful? Quint scrubbed his hands over his face. Where had that come from? Sure, he’d been thinking it, but he hadn’t meant to say it. He wasn’t the sort to give compliments like that to people. He’d never told anyone that but Linny, and with her it had been so obviously true that there’d been no point in not saying it.

But JJ was cute. Pretty, even. And okay, he’d woken up this morning with her image in his head. When he’d taken her back to the hotel after dinner, he had walked upstairs to her room with her, waited while she unlocked the door, set down her bag and took off her coat. She had come back, still wearing that orange hat and that broad, bright smile that came so naturally to her and lit up her entire face, and he’d been...

Words and emotions had come more naturally to him before Linny died. Not communicating had become a habit. Not feeling. It was how he’d survived. Now, after so many months of isolating himself, sometimes he had to stop and think to find the right thing to say, to recognize the proper emotion. It had become his default behavior.

Even now, after far too much thinking, he really wasn’t sure what he felt for JJ. Drawn to her? She was pretty. Confident. Sexy. Forthright. And who wouldn’t be drawn to that bright smile when their own smiles had disappeared?

Tempted by her? Maura had proved he could be tempted. Then, in that situation, he’d had to resist. Giving in to her would have been the lowest point of his life without Linny. But giving in to JJ would be...

She suddenly appeared at the passenger door, smiling, lively, brimming with energy. In deference to the warmer weather, her coat wasn’t done up to her neck, and the hat and gloves were missing from her outfit. She wore jeans again, a light blue shirt and a darker blue pullover, and she brought with her a cloud of sweet fragrance and cool air when she climbed into the seat. She tossed her bag on the back floorboard, belted up and focused her gaze on him. “I could get used to being chauffeured around.”

I could get used to doing it. Hell, he’d gotten used to things a whole lot less pleasant. Of course, he didn’t say that out loud. “What? Your chief won’t assign you a driver? Doesn’t he believe life was better when the little woman didn’t drive?”

“Or vote. Or have an opinion.” She screwed up her face as she rubbed her nose. “He called this morning. Told me to report back to him instead of Winchester and he would decide what to pass on. Reminded me that I work for him. For the moment.”

Quint shook his head as he pulled away from the curb. He understood her reasons for staying in Evanston. They were the same reasons he stayed in Cedar Creek. He could have gone to any city in the state, to any state in the union, and done more exciting work for more money and better benefits.

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