Tough as Steele by Susan Sleeman

Author:Susan Sleeman [Sleeman, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Edge of Your Seat Books, Inc

14

The hum of tires under Nate’s car nearly lulled Londyn to sleep. She wanted something to eat for lunch but wanted a nap even more as they passed the seventeen-hour mark and the clock beat down on her like the sun. This certainly wasn’t Londyn’s first all-nighter on the job. She frequently spent the first twenty-four hours of an investigation awake, as those were the most important hours in a murder investigation too. Any investigation for that matter.

She didn’t much like their lack of progress on this case while Mimi’s timeline raced toward the twenty-four-hour mark.

She turned to Nate. “Do you feel like we’re spinning our wheels? Just reacting to things as they come up instead of making a plan?”

“Sort of, but our actions have to be fluid to handle every situation we find ourselves in.”

“Like coming back here,” she said as he turned into Wigg’s driveway.

“We’ll pick Easton’s brain, and then we can regroup and formulate a plan based on what we learn.”

“We can meet at my house, and my family can update us too,” she said, but her attention shifted as they arrived on scene and memories of the shooting rushed back. A shudder racked her body. “Have you had someone shoot at you before coming here? Wait. Stupid question. Of course you have. SEALs are fired on all the time, right?”

“Not if we’re running our mission according to plan. But yeah, it happens when an unknown crops up.” He looked like he was going to say something but then clamped his mouth closed.

Once again, he really didn’t want to talk about it. Mr. Silent. Because he wanted to be that way, or because he couldn’t share the information? She suspected it was a bit of both. He stopped the car, having to park a long hike from the crime scene tape due to all the county vehicles filling the drive.

She unbuckled her seatbelt. “You ever take a bullet?”

He tapped his thigh. “Right here. Two of them. And in my spine. Thought I might never walk again. But God brought me through it.”

The vision in her head was replaced by one of him lying bloody and dying. A sharp pain took her breath for a moment. She’d seen a fellow patrol officer die on scene. Saw her brother’s bloody body when she found him. And this pain trying to steal her breath was similar to that.

She took a cleansing breath. “You don’t even limp.”

“Noticed, did you?” He grinned at her.

“It’s not like that.”

“Like what?”

“Personal. Just a work observation.”

“Yeah, like I noticed your legs in those spiky heels.”

“Hey, I can’t account for your actions. Only mine.” Loving the sudden easiness between them, she smiled back at him.

Their eyes met and held for a long moment. They were flirting, and they both knew it, and she liked it. Liked it a lot. And if his softer grin said anything, he did too.

Someone tapped on the window. Londyn spun to see Bristol, eyebrow arched and studying them.

“Coming out or what?” she asked loud enough to be heard through the closed window.

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