Saving Thea by Melissa Schroeder

Author:Melissa Schroeder [Schroeder, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781939734884
Publisher: Harmless Publishing
Published: 2019-09-25T05:00:00+00:00

Duncan sat at the kitchen table, going over the initial report of the investigation while Thea cooked dinner. He’d offered to help and she shooed him to the table and said to stay out of her way. He decided not to argue and had planned on working. The problem was Thea was in the vicinity and when she was, his concentration was shot.

Watching her move about the kitchen, he realized she was in her element. She was chopping some tomatoes, garlic and onion for the sauce, the spaghetti boiling in a pot of water. The heat from the stove added an attractive flush to her face.

“Anything interesting?” she asked, as she searched one of her cabinets. She rose up on her tiptoes trying to find something and her shirt rose above the waistline of her jeans, exposing the small of her back to him. Her skin was so smooth and soft. He wanted to roll her onto her stomach, and place a kiss right there. She would taste of apples and cinnamon, of sin and innocence.

He took a deep breath and tried to concentrate on the business at hand. “Not much. Just preliminary reports. Anonymous call to the police. Dailey figured it was you.”

She shrugged and as she moved back to the stove, set a spice jar on the counter. “I really don’t remember anything from that night. I easily could’ve called it in.”

With the garlic in the skillet, the aroma filled the kitchen. She opened a can of anchovies and a can of olives and began chopping again.

“Anyway, I haven’t gotten anything out of it so far but I can’t seem to concentrate with the smell of that sauce. What are you making?”

She flashed him a smile over her shoulder. “Puttanesca sauce. Easy to make. A little spicy, but I usually have everything I need in the pantry.”

“Never had it.”

“Well, the story goes that the streetwalkers in Naples would make this dish after a long night of work. Probably because it was fast and easy. No pun intended. Its nickname is the streetwalker’s sauce. If you want some wine, I have a great Chianti if you’d like to uncork it.” She nodded her head in the direction of a corkscrew on the counter and he retrieved the wine.

Within a few minutes, they were seated at the table, eating pasta and drinking wine.

“You enjoy cooking.”

She laughed. “Of course. I’d never do something I hated.”

“A lot of people do.”

She sipped her wine. “But you like yours. You enjoy it.”

“Thank God I do because I would have gone insane trying to run the business.”

“You don’t miss the Rangers?”

He shook his head. “It’s odd, because it had been the one thing I had wanted from the time I graduated from college. But…after the shooting, I just didn’t want to go back. And Crocker needed a new sheriff.”

“But…” She hesitated, then shook her head.

“What?”

“I just realized we don’t know each other that well.”

“We’ve known each other for most our lives.” He smiled and gave her a knowing look.

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