Sweet Stuff by Donna Kauffman

Author:Donna Kauffman [Kauffman, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780758277879
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2012-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Hannah looked up, grooming brush in hand, as she heard the footsteps entering the stable. She stroked the mare’s neck and mane, more to gather herself than to settle the startled horse. She should be more surprised to see him again. Maybe, in some part of her, she’d always known she would. She took a step away, and faced her intruder. “What are you doing here?”

If the lack of a warm welcome bothered him, he didn’t let it show. Not surprising. “To be honest, I don’t know.”

“Then, perhaps you should head on out. Come back when you do know.”

He cocked an eyebrow at that. “Is that an invitation?”

She allowed herself a moment to drink in the sight of him. It had been, what ... five years? Six, now? It might as well have been twenty, for all that had happened in their lives since.

It might as well have been yesterday, given the way her heart was pounding. “I don’t know what it is,” she said, deciding honesty was the only way to handle this. Handle him. “What made you drive all the way out here? Did something happen on an old case?” She didn’t bother asking how he’d known where to look for her. He’d once been the best detective the Denver police department had ever had. Colorado was a big place, easy to get lost in, which was precisely what she’d done after leaving the medical examiner’s office over half a decade ago. But if Joe St. Cloud wanted to find someone, he usually did.

“I’m not with the department any longer.”

“I know,” was all she said, and found herself enjoying the way his eyebrow lifted again. She’d surprised him with that. Good.

He walked closer then, and she had to work at not taking a physical step back. It would have been better—smarter—if she could have taken an emotional step back. Just as she’d done the entire time they’d worked together.

“Some things you can walk away from and never look back.” He stopped right in front of her. His piercing blue gaze, the one she’d seen pin down the most heartless killer and make him beg for mercy, pinned her now. “Other things ... not so much.”

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