King's Promise by Adrianne Byrd

Author:Adrianne Byrd [Byrd, Adrianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 0373534477
Google: Cy1NZELYQqEC
Amazon: B004Z2I54C
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2011-07-01T01:15:38+00:00

“You slept with him, didn’t you?” Johnnie asked, following Cheryl to her desk.

“What? What are you talking about?” Cheryl dropped down into her chair and turned toward her computer to look up a few names to see if there were any hits.

“See. You can’t even look at me,” Johnnie said. “When and where? That’s all I want to know.”

“Don’t you have some work to do?” Cheryl snapped at her partner.

“When and where?”

“I made one mistake and now you think that I’m some morally corrupt cop? I’m offended.”

“You are riddled with guilt. I said nothing about being morally corrupt. I just happen to know that if I wrote down a checklist of all the things that you like in a man, Xavier King would match up perfectly. Handsome, athletic, successful, smooth, cool—come on. You’d have to be Superwoman not fall for that brother. And now that this investigation is going on longer than we thought, we’re talking about the laws of attraction and a numbers game.”

“I’m not sleeping with him.”

Johnnie cocked her head. “No. You’re working at this desk. I’m saying that you have slept with him and you’re playing this verbal rope-a-dope game with me instead of just answering the question.”

Cheryl sucked in a deep breath and then glanced around the office to make sure that no one was listening to them before confessing. “So what if I did? Big deal. It just happened. I didn’t plan it. It…it just happened.”

“Oooh. I knew it.” Johnnie snapped her fingers. “You lucky heifer.” She rolled her eyes. “How was he? I know he was good. He was good, wasn’t he? Tell the truth and shame the devil.”

Cheryl dropped her head into the palm of her hand. “God. Why in the hell did I just tell you that? I’m never going to live it down now.”

“What you’re going to do is give me a blow-by-blow rendition of exactly how it went down. How many times it went down. And please, please tell me that there was some baby oil being slathered on that man’s gorgeous body.”

“What the hell? Aren’t you getting any these days?”

“On a dry spell, two months, sixteen days—” She glanced at her watch. “And ten hours and…seventeen—no—make that eighteen minutes.” Cheryl snickered.

“Throw a girl a bone?”

Cheryl grabbed her purse. “C’mon. Let’s go grab a cup of coffee.”

“Now we’re talking.”

Cheryl shook her head as she walked around her desk, but when she lifted her head, she just barely stopped in time before she smacked into Lieutenant Mackey’s chest.

“Good. I caught you,” Mackey said, folding his arms across his chest. “You got a minute?”

“I, uh—” Cheryl glanced over at Johnnie, but couldn’t think of an excuse fast enough.

“I need to see you in my office,” he said, shuffling past her.

Cheryl groaned and briefly pinched the bridge of her nose.

“That wasn’t a request, Detective Grier,” Mackey shouted without breaking stride.

“I swear I can’t stand that man,” Cheryl hissed under her breath.

“We’ll put that coffee on pause,” Johnnie said. “You better get in there before he huffs and puffs and then blows the damn department down.

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