Loving a Lawman by Amy Lillard

Author:Amy Lillard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-05-13T16:41:24+00:00

Chapter Eleven

There is, uh . . . one thing,” Seth said as he drove through town. Their afternoon together had been wonderful. More amazing than she could have imagined. But she couldn’t read anything into it. That was just Seth, an all-around good guy.

Why couldn’t she have fallen in love with him long ago instead of Chase? It would have made things a whole lot easier, but then, when had her life ever been simple? Never, that’s when.

“What is that?” she asked as he pulled in front of Nita Calvert’s.

Seth cut the engine and gave her a rueful look. “Come on,” he said, sliding from the seat. “I have someone I want you to meet.”

“The fireworks are going to start soon,” she said, looking through the windshield at the quickly darkening sky. They had heard a couple of rounds of firecrackers go off as they drove past the park. The only place anyone was allowed to set them off was on the asphalt basketball court to keep down the fire hazard. In order to help keep the code easy to follow, the City Council set up a huge fireworks show every year.

“We have time,” Seth countered. “Now come on.”

Jessie got out of the truck and went around the front to stand next to him. “I’ve already met Nita.”

He shook his head. “Just come on.” He led her around back to the doorway that led into his apartment.

She tried to remember a time when she had come here with Seth, but she couldn’t think of any. Strange she felt so close to him yet she had never seen where he lived. Or maybe it was that she had always pictured his home as the Diamond.

Seth took out his key and unlocked the door. From inside the apartment, a dog started to bark.

He shot her one more unreadable grin, then stepped inside. “Sadie,” he called, then crouched down as the dog answered his summons.

“Jessie. I’d like for you to meet Sadie. Sadie, Jessie.”

“Pleasure,” Jessie said, only briefly remembering that she was addressing a pooch. A four-pound pooch judging from the size of her.

It was the tiniest dog she had ever seen. Or maybe it only looked that small because of the way Seth cradled it in his big hands. “Is that a . . .”

He nodded, looking only mildly embarrassed. “Yorkie, yes.”

Despite all the seriousness of the last couple of weeks, Jessie’s lips started to twitch. “And how exactly did you come to have such a sweet little puppy?”

To her amazement, Seth planted a quick kiss on the top of Sadie’s tiny head. “Chase brought her home last year. I never found her a home, so I ended up just keeping her.”

Jessie nodded. “And how is it that I’m just now seeing her?”

He shrugged and placed the dog on the floor between them. “No reason.”

“Dogs like Sadie have to be groomed, you know.” Evidently he did. Sadie had a tiny pink bow tied between her ears. Surely he didn’t . . .

“Yeah,” he admitted.

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