Holiday House Call by Doyle Jen

Author:Doyle, Jen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2017-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Tuck had never been so happy to be called to an accident scene as he was at that moment—something that bothered him as much as the reasons behind it.

He wasn’t at all proud about what had just happened. He’d known going in that he was on shaky ground, and he’d sworn to himself he was going to make it up to her. He’d driven his own personal vehicle to this afternoon’s meeting so he could officially take the rest of the afternoon off in hopes of persuading her to have dinner with him. He hadn’t intended to initiate actual physical contact. Hell, he’d even specifically told himself to expect her to pull out the sex card and that he was absolutely going to resist it.

Then he’d decided that two slices of an orange equaled lunch, thanked Christ he’d had the forethought to grab a couple of condoms, and taken her right there on her desk in an unlocked office in the middle of the Goddamned hospital. And, damn, he’d never flown higher. So much for his willpower.

It was well past ten by the time he got home, his drive not at all helped by the first official snowfall of the season. He’d showered and changed at the station, so he didn’t go inside right away, instead waiting at his truck for his dogs to come to him. Sox and Seeley spent most of their days at his neighbor’s horse farm, which was a perfect arrangement as far as Tuck was concerned. They’d never been able to have pets when he was a kid, but as soon as they moved to Inspiration his parents got a dog and Tuck had had at least one ever since. He flashed his headlights so that Ella would know he was in for the night, and then he zipped his jacket up tight—although the snow had stopped, there was a bitter wind—and took them for a walk along the road, his mind on Karen the entire time.

He gave his all to his job and he willingly gave his life over to it, believing strongly in giving back to the town that had saved him. He hadn’t quite expected Karen to give him the whole not-part-of-my-job excuse, although, yes, he understood where she was coming from about boundaries. Things were different in places like that—it was why he’d left Denver.

But the more he was getting to know her—despite her every effort to shut him down, Jesus Christ—the more he could see she’d created her own small town of sorts, it was just all anonymous and within her own constructs. She cared deeply enough to write checks for people who would never know she’d done so. Tuck knew from Fitz that not only had Karen called to check in but, within the last few days, several other local charities—including the Police Department’s Benevolence Fund and every single one of the high school’s clubs and teams—had gotten anonymous donations.

And, hell, yes, he was going to

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