Irresistible Forces (McKingley) by McKenna Jeffries & Aliyah Burke

Author:McKenna Jeffries & Aliyah Burke [Jeffries, McKenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
Published: 2013-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Leo walked down the steps from the house of the couple he’d just delivered the news to. Damn it all, there were some days he hated this job. This counted as one of those days. The couple’s daughter, Aslynn, had been riding her bike back from school, as she’d done every day, when a reckless driver had hit her. She’d died on the way to the hospital.

He blew out a sigh as he opened the door to his vehicle. The mother’s wailing could still be heard and it was like a knife to his heart. The child had been their only one and now…they had none. Normally people were asked to come to the morgue for identification, but he’d said no to that. Her face had been so badly mangled it wasn’t recognisable. Her school bag had been beside her and they’d also run a dental on her to get positive identification. No parent should have that image of their child as the last one. They needed to remember her as the vibrant girl she had been.

He stopped for a coffee at a small diner, needing a moment to decompress. Climbing out, he noticed a familiar, mostly dirty, green and dented Jeep parked in the lot. He entered the diner and scanned the area. Finding who he looked for, he made his way there.

“Hey, Sheriff,” the server greeted him.

“Candy.”

“Coffee?”

“Please.” He paused by the booth and stared down at the woman there. “Hey, Lis.”

“Hey, bro. Grab a seat.”

He did and nodded his thanks when Candy dropped off his drink. “How you doing?”

She shrugged. “Some days are harder than others, you know?”

“I do. I just got done with telling Aslynn’s parents. I convinced them not to go down for a look.”

Her eyes glistened with unshed tears. “I tried, Leo. I really did.”

He reached across the table and squeezed her hand. “It wasn’t your fault, Lis. You always do your best.”

“Doesn’t make it any easier. I’ll be playing the ‘what if’ game in my head for a while.”

He nodded and grabbed for her plate, dragging it closer to him. Helping himself to her fries, he glanced at her ringless left hand.

“You know you can ask me. Jonathon told me he slipped up and mentioned it to you.” The plate moved back out of his reach. “And you can get your own fries.”

“Candy,” he called out. “An order like Lis has, please.”

“Coming right up, Sheriff.”

He turned his attention back to his sister. “Why?”

She lifted one eyebrow and he read the question before she voiced it. “Really?” She ate a bite of her hamburger. “Have you not seen the insanity Mom’s doing for these weddings? I’m not going to be a part of that. Besides, I don’t do girly. I have no desire to be put through all of that craziness.”

“What about pictures?”

“We had some taken.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

“I wasn’t going to tell Jonathon, but I didn’t return his car to him the next day. You know how he is about his vehicles anyway.

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