Midnight Bet by Jodi Thomas

Author:Jodi Thomas [Thomas, Jodi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

SIX

RICK TOOK HIS time getting dressed as he slowly relived every minute of his night with Trace. She’d felt so good in his arms, in his bed. With her, he believed he just might be a great lover. Only problem was no one would ever know, because he couldn’t imagine loving anyone but Trace.

They fit together so perfectly. They were wild hungry animals leaving bruises one minute, and the next, loving so tenderly he felt he breathed her into his entire body. He hadn’t asked her if she’d taken another lover in the months they’d been apart. He knew she hadn’t. Just like him, she was starving, demanding, on fire. She’d wanted him with every part of her being, just as he’d wanted her.

Strangely, the fact that she hadn’t said good-bye gave him hope. She was still around, and he had no choice but to wait until she appeared again. If she believed someone was stalking him, planning to kill him, she’d be watching over him from somewhere in the shadows. His own private, long-legged, beautiful guardian angel.

When he climbed into his car, a text blinked on his cell phone.

One word. Midnight. He didn’t recognize the number, but he pressed return and punched: I dare you to come back for more.

He pressed Send and smiled. Trace wasn’t gone. They’d have another night.

He didn’t bother to search the corners of the parking garage or study the people in other cars. She was out there. He knew it, but he wouldn’t see her until midnight. An endless day lay ahead, which offered him hours to think about the pleasure to come. He’d make love to her again, wild and free, as if for the first time, or maybe the last time.

He stopped for coffee at the diner, bought a paper in the bookstore, climbed the stairs to his office on the third floor of the courthouse, and adjusted his chair. Fifteen minutes later he was sound asleep.

Finally, the sound of someone pounding on his door woke him. Rick stood, trying to shake off sleep before he made it to the lock. The sunshine that had been sparkling across his floor was gone, so he guessed he’d been asleep for hours. It had to be near noon.

His cousin’s wife, Alex, the sheriff of Harmony, stood waiting, none too patiently as he unlocked the door. She didn’t say a word, just walked in, turned, and glared at him.

“What?” he snapped. Alex tended to frown when she was unhappy with him, which was most of the time. The sheriff was only kin by marriage, but she’d been big-sistering him since he’d hung up a shingle and started practicing law.

“Why didn’t you let me know Marshal Trace Adams was in town? She charged into my office three hours ago and the dust hasn’t settled since.”

“What do I look like? Instagram? Maybe she just came in to see me.”

Alex rolled her eyes. “She thinks your life is in danger. That’s why she’s back.”

He guessed the fact that he’d slept with Trace couldn’t look more obvious.

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