Out of a Texas Night by Phyliss Miranda

Author:Phyliss Miranda [Miranda, Phyliss]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-12-11T20:23:38+00:00

Chapter 14

As a professional, Avery knew if she and Brody were to work together, she had no choice but to find him and explain things.

In all of her years in law enforcement, she’d rarely felt uncomfortable in any operation, but as she entered the truck stop fully dressed in her uniform, an unknown one to boot for the area, about a quarter of the patrons hurried up with their meal, paid, and left. This sure wasn’t the type of truck stop she was accustomed to. Obviously privately owned, but doing a big business with truckers, although the gas prices were higher than the one farther down the road. This immediately sent up a flag that she needed to investigate the business, but that was far down on her list of priorities.

Since she hadn’t eaten much of anything, she ordered a cheese omelet with toast, along with a glass of iced tea.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Brody come in. He almost took her breath away with his good looks. There was just something about a uniform that set most women’s heart aflutter and Avery was no different.... Except she was his boss and couldn’t allow any feelings to develop, although there were already the makings of a lot of them inside of her.

He looked around, squared his shoulders with purpose, avoided looking at Avery, and walked directly over to a young, rough-looking yet pretty young woman sitting in a booth. He slid in across from her and said very little. She seemed to do the majority of the talking.

Suddenly, the woman jerked up her excessively ornate and obviously cheap purse and almost cleared off the table getting out of the booth. She leaned over to pull down the hem of her much-too-short skirt. Avery was certain everyone in the café could see all the way to her toes from the opening in the bodice of her dress—or what she probably called a dress.

The woman looked at the floor and in a voice shrill enough to be heard in the square in town, said, “Okay, Mr. Sheriffman, I wasn’t doing a damn thing wrong. Just having coffee. I can’t believe you’d make a pass at me all decked out in your uniform. So, I’ll get on my way. I don’t do favors for pigs.” She stumbled toward the front door, deliberately, if Avery had to make a guess.

Brody slid from the booth. “And I mean it. If I see you here again, I promise I’m going to arrest you for loitering if I can’t prove anything else. You hear me!”

“Go fu...” The woman was too far out the door to make out her words, but again, Avery knew exactly what she had said without hearing it. She’d heard the phrase way too many times in her career.

Brody stood with his arms crossed until the woman got in her car and pulled away from the café, letting gravel fly. Then he walked over to Avery. “You wanna talk to

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