Rookie Days (Duty Series Book 2) by Natalie Debrabandere

Author:Natalie Debrabandere [Debrabandere, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-20T00:00:00+00:00

chapter 17

There was no time to linger. Dispatch had just informed her that a woman had been found dead at a popular recreation spot on the edge of the city. It might be another rape victim. Ellie needed to go. But she would rather have lost an arm than leave Janet at the bar under the circumstances… And now she recognized that her knotted stomach had more to do with personal pressure than the prospect of rushing to another murder scene. You said you’d be straight. So be straight, dammit!

“I’m scared,” she blurted out, and instantly wanted to take it back.

What the hell!? Although somewhat true, this was absolutely not what she had meant to say. Before Janet could reply, because there was no time and she could not figure out how to explain it with words, Ellie just took her face in her hands and she poured everything she felt into a kiss. Janet resisted slightly at first, probably because her mind was still on the startling admission Ellie had just made. But then she melted into her, and kissed her back with equal passion. It was loaded from the start, laced with desire and unspoken, raw emotions. Equally, and on both sides. The more experienced of the two, Janet was the first to pull back. Ellie struggled to follow suit and even to open her eyes, deeply lost as she’d been in the intensity and power of the exchange. She stumbled, caught herself on the doorframe.

“You’re gorgeous.” Janet steadied her with one hand firmly placed in the center of her chest. “Now go.”

“Yeah.” Ellie could not resist resting her fingers over hers and staying close for a second longer. Her heart was pounding hard enough that she was sure Janet must feel it too. “I’m going. Um… Jan. What I meant to say—”

“Shhh...” Janet silenced her with another kiss, mercifully brief this time, as if she recognized that anything else would leave Ellie unfit for duty. She flashed her a brilliant smile and added a shove to it. “I heard you loud and clear. It’s okay. Get out of here, rookie. I’ll see you soon.”

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Time hit differently when she was with Janet, though Ellie was pleased to confirm that the extra stop did not add more than five minutes to her journey. She was still ahead of the ME when her driver dropped her off at the entrance to Lincoln Park. She handed him a twenty, told him to keep the change, and jogged her way to a lone police cruiser parked in front of a wooded area in the distance. By the time she ducked under a line of yellow crime scene tape and joined the uniform on site, her mind was clear and her focus, absolute.

“Hi. Detective James. What have we got?”

She didn’t know the officer attending, but he looked young and was revved-up. A real rookie, she figured, who omitted to introduce himself but filled her in quickly and accurately.

“Got a call that a guy walking his dog found a body in the bushes.

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