Drawing the Line by Kimberly Kincaid

Author:Kimberly Kincaid [Kincaid, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Curtis Brown Digital
Published: 2013-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Serenity mopped her brow as she shifted back from the sturdy Frigidaire Custom Imperial double oven, sliding a skillet of bacon to a dormant burner with a scrape and clang. She’d spent a disproportionate amount of the last two days sequestered inside the heated confines of the safe house kitchen, chopping, mixing, baking and frying. Somehow, when she had her hands on the food and her mind on the simple task of preparing an ingredient or putting a dish together, everything else seemed to recede.

Like the fact that a wily, cold-blooded criminal wanted her very, very dead. And first thing tomorrow morning, said criminal was standing up at his arraignment, with both his own freedom and her personal safety swinging around each other by very tenuous threads.

“You okay in here?” Jason poked his head into the kitchen, hands in the pockets of his jeans and his gun holstered firmly to his hip.

“Yes, thank you.” Serenity nodded, giving the huge stock pot full of boiling new potatoes a gentle nudge with one hand.

“Sorry about the heat,” he said, pointing up to the sad excuse for a downdraft over the oven. “The house is old, and while the ventilation system is safe, it’s not very efficient.”

She ignored the trickle of perspiration sneaking between her shoulder blades, just grateful that the stove was functional. “It’s okay.”

“Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that Detective Blackwell will be here tomorrow to relieve me so I can go to the arraignment. Brody’s first on the docket, so it’ll be kind of early.”

She hadn’t been shocked to discover that Jason was an integral part of this case; after all, not only was he stuck here with her, but he’d also been checking in with his Lieutenant at regular intervals, performing thorough security sweeps of the property, and poring over hours’ worth of case files on his laptop. In the same way she’d been living and breathing the kitchen, Jason had been one hundred percent absorbed in his job.

Which meant he’d been one hundred percent absorbed in her, even though they’d exchanged nothing but polite words and need-to-know information for the last two days.

“Are you hungry?” Serenity blurted, forcing herself back to the safe haven of the farmhouse kitchen. “I’m making BLTs and potato salad, and there’s plenty.”

Sure, as long as plenty translated to enough to feed ten of you. But she couldn’t help it she missed Mac’s. Getting her hands on the groceries the department had delivered was a decent enough substitute, but it was temporary. She had to hold out hope that the arraignment judge would see reason and leave Brody in jail until the trial. Then maybe it would be safe enough to work her way back to her diner and her life again.

Jason paused, his blue eyes zeroing in on the cast iron skillet that was very likely older than both of them combined. “I don’t want to put you out.”

“It’s no trouble at all.” She reached for the golden-crusted loaf

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