THE SECRET OF CHEROKEE COVE by Paula Graves

Author:Paula Graves
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“He was completely friendly and charming.” Dana looked almost disappointed, Nix thought. He supposed he could understand her frustration, at least; she’d thought she had a prime suspect in the brake-tampering case in the Sutherland family, only to find Pete Sutherland held no grudge.

“People around here love the old guy, and for a reason.” Nix unlocked his front door and let her inside.

“I thought people around here didn’t lock their doors,” she murmured.

“I’m a cop. I know better.” He closed the door behind him and helped her out of her jacket. “Remember, I just got back from a break-in.”

“How bad was it?” Dana turned to look at him, worry crinkling her brow. “Is she freaked out?”

“It takes a hell of a lot to freak out Briar,” he said with a smile. “She’s mostly furious, since they didn’t seem to take anything.”

Dana frowned. “They just busted up the place for kicks?”

“I’m not sure it was quite that random,” Nix admitted, hanging her jacket on the coat tree by the door and shrugging off his own.

“I know you said it probably had nothing to do with my going there yesterday, but...did it have anything to do with my going there yesterday?”

“I honestly don’t know.” He waved in the general direction of the sofa and headed into the kitchen. “Want something to drink? I don’t have much in the way of alcohol here. My parents aren’t drinkers, so I never picked up the habit.”

“Same here, same reason.” Her voice was closer than he expected; he turned and found she’d followed him into the kitchen and settled in one of the chairs at the small breakfast nook. “Wouldn’t mind a sandwich, though. I was a little too thrown by meeting Pete Sutherland to actually eat much of my order at the diner, and I’m starving.”

“I can do better than that. I have a couple of nice fat rainbow-trout fillets in the freezer. Caught last fall right out of Blackbow Creek.”

“I’ll pretend I know where that is,” she said with a smile.

“Just over the hill from here,” he told her. “I’ll see what vegetables I can come up with.”

“Mind if I use your bathroom?”

He nodded toward the narrow hallway off the kitchen. “First room on the right.”

While she headed for the bathroom, he looked through his pantry to see what he had in the way of vegetables. He decided on a jar of green beans and a smaller jar of peaches that his mother had put away from her surplus last summer. He had some cream in the refrigerator that hadn’t expired yet. Maybe he’d get all fancy and whip up a topping for the peaches himself.

He put the plastic bag of trout fillets in a bowl of hot water to start them thawing and turned his attention to the green beans, trying to remember how his mother cooked them. She usually started with sautéed onions, he remembered, so he pulled out a skillet and started the oil heating.

By the time the onions were beginning to grow translucent, he realized Dana still hadn’t come back from the bathroom.

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