Strike (Tortured Heroes Book 4) by Jayne Blue

Author:Jayne Blue [Blue, Jayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nokay Press, LLC
Published: 2017-02-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Ben

“Bates, I swear to God, you’re the only guy I know who can actually snore when he’s awake!” I lobbed a crumpled piece of paper across the room and hit Tim square in the chest. For the past week I’d been cooped up in the office with him on light duty. I had three more days before I could get back out there with the team.

Tim caught the paper and smirked. “You make a habit sleeping next to a lot of other guys, do you?”

I shot him a middle finger and straightened the stack of reports on my desk. “How do you put up with this shit?”

“What part? You? You’re not so bad.”

I leaned back in my chair and tapped my pen on the edge of the desk. “Do you miss it? Being out there with the team?” He’d grumbled about it often enough, but since I’d had the last few days to spend time with him, I had to admit Tim looked better. He’d lost weight for one, and there was a, I don’t know, lightness about him I wasn’t used to.

Tim’s nostrils flared and he laced his fingers behind his head. “You’re not fooling anyone, you know. And I still haven’t forgiven you for bugging out on our meeting with the chief.”

I didn’t like the look in his eyes. Of all the guys in the department, I’d known Tim the longest and best. He looked like he was about to give me one of his whopping lectures. Usually I ended up hating myself for a little while afterward because he was rarely wrong. The asshole.

“You look like you came out of it all right. Didn’t you take Brett like I told you to?”

Tim shook his head. “Brett was still out sick when the chief scheduled it.”

Now I felt like the asshole. But I still figured it was a good idea if I kept my distance from Chief Marek. Things were cool with Charlotte as far as I knew, but it would be pretty tough standing in the room with the guy knowing what I’d done with his daughter. Hell, just thinking about it now in passing set my nerves on fire. I wanted to see her again, badly.

“Are you going to just sit there and look guilty, you dipshit?” Tim asked. He got up and walked over to the door. Glancing both ways down the hall, he shut it and turned back to me. It was just the two of us here in the squad. The rest of the team had gone out to run surveillance. There’d been another home invasion near the college and we’d gotten a description of the vehicle they drove.

Tim walked over to my desk and perched himself on the corner. “Fine. I’ll ask. Is there something going on between you and the chief’s daughter?”

My blood turned to ice. I didn’t want to look Tim in the eyes because then there’d be no use in trying to downplay anything. He knew me too well not to see through any bullshit I now wanted to shovel.

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