The Sheriff's Daughter by Andersen Jessica

Author:Andersen, Jessica [Andersen, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-02-07T00:38:30+00:00

Chapter Eight

Sam held it together until the door shut behind Cage for the second time, leaving her standing alone in the grand apartment with Logan’s cell phone in her hand.

It was still warm and she fancied it was from his body heat. She touched the small device to her cheek and prayed for his safety.

She could deal with veterinary emergencies in the middle of the night, with prissy pets, obnoxious owners, and even with Horace Mann and his shotgun. But she didn’t know how to deal with this situation, didn’t know how she could possibly help.

Logan was on his way back to a place that had wounded him deeply. She had sensed it in his expression when he’d talked about his time undercover, she’d heard it in his voice. He didn’t want to go back there. But he was doing exactly that. For her safety. For his.

In this, but in nothing else, they were a couple.

“Urgh!” Frustrated with her thoughts, and the way they kept circling back time and again to the taste of his kiss and the press of his body, she turned away from the door and forced herself into the kitchen, where she started a pot of coffee.

It was going to be a long night.

While the coffee perked, she flipped open her own phone and dialed home.

The clinic line rang. And rang. And rang. Panic gathered beneath her breastbone and bubbled to the surface. Oh, God! Something had happened to Jennifer. She was hurt, she’d been kidnapped, she—

“Hello?” The voice was breathless and laced with a giggle.

“Jennifer?” Worry gave over to instant confusion. “What’s going on?” The rumble of a familiar male voice served only to increase Sam’s bewilderment. “Is somebody there with you? Are you okay?”

To her knowledge, Jen hadn’t looked at a man since escaping her marriage. She’d focused on getting healthy, on getting stronger. On making a new life. So what the hell was going on?

“I’m fine.” The lilt in Jen’s voice was unfamiliar. Young. Almost sexy. “Jimmy and I are just finishing up the animals for the evening.”

“Jimmy?” Always before, it had been Sheriff Donahue this and Sheriff Donahue that. Come to think of it, Jen had said the two words an awful lot, almost like a woman with a crush.

Or a woman in love.

What the hell was happening in Black Horse Beach? Sam wondered. She had been gone for a day and her best friend had hooked up with her…other best friend?

She turned inward and looked for a spark of jealousy. She found only a faint sadness.

“Sam?” Jimmy’s voice came on the line, not laughing, but also a little out of breath. “What’s going on up there? Are you okay? Is Hart behaving himself?”

“I’m not sure you’re in any position to ask that at the moment, James,” she said with irritation borne of a twinge of envy. Then she stopped and took a breath. “Sorry.”

There was silence on the other end, then Jimmy’s voice, very serious. “Is this going to be a

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