The Coffee Shop by Rosaline Jay

Author:Rosaline Jay [Jay, Rosaline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Compass Rose Books
Published: 2024-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

LUKE

It’s day three at the safehouse and Leena and I are standing on the porch watching Sebastian leave.

“Why can’t he just use the burner phone to check in? Why can’t we go with him?” She asks.

“You know we can’t risk anyone tracing the call and we definitely can’t risk someone seeing you. He’ll be alright,” I say, wrapping my arm around her to pull her into my side.

“How long will he be gone?”

I look down at her quizzically, surprised by her concern. I know that we’ve had a good time over the last few days, a really good time, but that’s all it is. Just a good time. And as much as I wish it could be more, I know as well as she does that as soon as we leave this place, what we have will be over.

My heart sinks when I realize this could be our last day with her. As much as I want her to be safe enough to go home, selfishly, I want her here with us more.

But seeing Leena this worried, this afraid for Sebastian leaving? It’s starting to make me question what this all means for her.

“It’s about an hour and a half to town. So after he checks in, makes a few stops, he’ll be back, in under four hours if I had to guess. And we have his number, we can text him whenever you like,” I say, kissing the top of her head, leading her back into the house.

“So what’s the story with you two?” Leena asks as we settle into the couch. My arm is still around her and she curls into me as I kick my feet up onto the coffee table. It strikes me how comfortable we’ve become over the past three days. I just have this constant need to be touching her, and it seems she feels the same.

“What do you mean?” I ask, hoping that she’s not bringing up that conversation again.

She tilts her chin up to grin at me. God, she’s adorable. But it’s not really in a cute way, it’s more in a she’s fucking hot, sort of way.

I have to catch my goddamn breath everytime I look at her.

“You and Seb. You said you’ve known him since you were kids?” she asks.

“Yeah, we met our first year of high school. Some guys were beating up on this really nerdy kid after school and I went over to stop them, which was stupid, because they outnumbered me three to one. They had me on the ground in less than a second and were beating the fucking shit out of me too. That’s when Seb came over, pulled them off me. He was a tank of a man, even back then,” I say and Leena chuckles. “Anyway, the two of us kicked the crap out of those guys. They never touched that kid, or us, again. We’ve been inseparable ever since.”

“So is that why you decided to become cops? Because you like saving people?”

I let out a little chuckle.

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