Serve 'N' Protect (Federal K-9) by Tee O'Fallon

Author:Tee O'Fallon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: K9, K-9, dog, secret service, police, suspense, thriller, contemporary, romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Amara)
Published: 2021-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Hammering and voices woke Cassidy. The room was bright—too bright to be early morning. She squinted then hissed in a breath as the goose egg on her cheekbone made itself known.

Touching her face gingerly, she confirmed the bruise was bigger now and swollen. She’d have to dig out some makeup to cover what would likely be fifty shades of purple. Now, if she could only hide from her family so they didn’t get a glimpse of it. Otherwise, she’d be subjected to nonstop interrogation over how she’d gotten it. They’d only try to talk her into selling her house and moving back home. Not. Independence was important to her, as was getting back on her own two feet. Literally, and not without her third foot—the damned cane.

Her eyes flew open as she caught sight of the clock. It was one in the afternoon. She’d slept the entire morning away.

The bed beside her was empty, as was the floor. No Markus and no Ghost. After tying her robe around her waist, she went to the window. Markus stood on her porch, looking yummy in snug black jeans and—

What the—?

Two trucks were parked at the curb, one belonging to a window repair company and the other to a security systems firm.

She became dizzy as virtual dollar signs flew from her meager bank account. This couldn’t be happening.

Repairing the window was a basic necessity, but a security system was most definitely not in her budget, even after last night. It was financially impossible.

Annoyance at Markus’s presumption pushed her to clump quicker down the stairs than was prudent. She’d thank him for whatever miracle he’d performed in getting the window repair guys to the house so quickly, but he should have consulted her before calling a security company.

After shrugging into her jacket, she went outside and hobbled across the lawn, wishing she could move faster and hoping to intervene before any pricy gadgets were installed in her house.

Markus stood by the broken railing, supervising the installation of new glass in the empty space that used to be a window. Another man busied himself screwing something on the siding immediately adjacent to the front door.

Ghost bounded off the porch, greeting her with a happy smile and a tail wag. “Morning, Ghost.” A quick pat on the dog’s head and she beelined for Markus, readying to give him a big chunk of her mind.

His face was obscured by dark sunglasses and the shadow cast by the brim of his ball cap. The jacket he wore made his broad shoulders even broader, not that she was checking out his amazing body or anything along the lines of lusting after the guy. Certainly not that.

At her approach, he turned and smiled. “Morning.” Beneath the glasses, she glimpsed his eyes dipping to take in her bruised cheek and his jaw went rigid. “How’s your cheek?”

Ignoring him, she lit into the man working at the door. “Whatever you’re doing, stop. I didn’t order a security system, and I can’t afford to pay for one.

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