Exclusively Yours by Shannon Stacey

Author:Shannon Stacey [Stacey, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General
ISBN: 9780373776788
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Keri was stretched out on Joe’s bed, watching him tap away on his laptop. She was trying to leave him alone—she’d even spent a few minutes working herself—but boredom was setting in.

The short-lived attempt at working had only served to depress her. Every time she looked at the questions and answers so far and tried to work them into a compelling—or at least mildly interesting—article, it became increasingly obvious the hard-hitting journalist inside of her was enjoying the vacation aspect of the assignment, while the fluff-writer she’d once been was the only part of her showing up for work.Wouldn’t it be a kick in the ass to go through the Kowalski version of Hell Week times two, only to end up turning in a puff piece that got her fired anyway?

“What happened to Kevin?” she asked when she couldn’t stand the silence anymore. Even though she couldn’t use the information in her article, maybe she could fake her muse into thinking they were actually working. “To make him leave the police department, I mean.”

Joe clicked, presumably on the save button and turned to look at her. “You know Kev. Perfect guy to run a sports bar, don’t you think?”

He was hiding something. Something big if her gut was right and it almost always was. “Off the record, Joe. Besides the fact I agreed to your stupid rules, you know me well enough to know I’d never deliberately hurt your family.”

“People change a lot in twenty years, babe.”

“Bullshit. You never would have let me come here if you didn’t trust me to respect their privacy.”

He grinned at her, his dimples flashing. “Got me there.”

“It’s just natural curiosity about the people I’m hanging out with. Nothing more sinister than that. And I haven’t said anything to Terry about her husband, even when she was being bitchy, have I?”

“Fine, but if you even look at him with pity in your eyes, he’ll know I told you. And he never even told me the whole story. I’ve got a friend who works for the Boston PD and he filled me in on a lot of it.”

“Jesus, Joe, do you want me to sign a confidentiality agreement?”

“Okay, fine. Kevin worked his ass off for the department, but never got ahead. Always got the shitty shifts in bad neighborhoods. He forgot something one day and stopped at home. Found out his captain had been banging his wife for God knows how long. Kev beat the holy fuck out of him.”

“Oh my God,” Keri breathed. “Did they arrest him?”

“The captain’s married to the daughter of a political heavy-hitter, so he was publicity shy, to say the least. Kevin left the department and filed for divorce. That was the end of it.”

“Poor guy.”

“No sympathy! I mean it, Keri. Just leave it alone.”

They heard the footsteps on the porch before the knock on the door, and Keri sighed and flopped back on the pillow. Knowing his family, her boredom—otherwise known as peace and quiet—was about to come to an end.

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