Spring Fever by Deborah Cooke

Author:Deborah Cooke [Cooke, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-988479-71-2
Publisher: Deborah A. Cooke

The man was more dangerous than anyone guessed.

There was no good way to avoid Kade’s suggestion that they have one date, because it was a good way to diffuse any gossip. Reyna didn’t believe for a minute that he’d let her dump him that easily, but she appreciated him trying to defend her reputation.

She chewed her lip as she watched Kade dress, wishing she had the strength not to watch. She didn’t, especially as she was going to send him away for good. On the one hand, it hadn’t freaked her out to have him in her sanctuary, not when they did it in the shop or even when she discovered that he’d put her clothes in her bedroom. On the other hand, the fact that his presence didn’t bother her was a sign of trouble.

She was letting down her guard.

She was forgetting her rules.

Next she’d be sharing her history with him.

No, no, no. Reyna wasn’t going to be coaxed back into a relationship with anyone, not even for amazing sex.

“Are you going to go back?” She asked when he was pulling on his second boot. Her tone was harder than would have been ideal. She wondered if that was why he looked up or if it was the question itself.

“Back? To Portland?” He shrugged then stood up. “Probably. Eventually.”

“No. I mean back to the police force.”

He turned to stare at her, frozen in the act of picking up his jacket, but recovered pretty well. “So, you know about that.”

“My friend recognized you at the club.” She shrugged and averted her gaze, knowing that he was watching her closely. “I looked it up. I looked you up.”

There was a long moment of silence, then she heard him shrugging into the leather jacket. “And what do you think of what you learned?”

She looked at him then, not surprised to find him watching her. “What difference does it make?”

“It makes a lot of difference to me.”

Reyna opened her mouth and closed it again, took a breath and frowned before she spoke. “I think there are men who are born to be cops and soldiers, men whose nature compels them to serve their community or their country. I think they’re good men and we’re lucky to have them. We probably could do with a few more.”

This time it was Kade who folded his arms across his chest. He surveyed her with a little smile playing over his lips. “There’s an answer that’s not an answer.”

“It’s an answer!”

“What do you think of what I did?”

“You were cleared.”

“By a review board, yes. That doesn’t mean that everyone thinks the board was right.”

He was more intense than usual and Reyna felt self-conscious as she seldom did. “I don’t live in Portland. My view of the police there isn’t relevant.”

“It is to me.” He took a step closer and Reyna found the counter behind her. “Tell me, Reyna, what do you think of what I did?”

She heard the doubt in his tone and knew that she could give him one gift.

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