Trading Places by Fern Michaels

Author:Fern Michaels
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Impersonation, Atlanta (Ga.), Police, Journalists, Mystery & Detective, Romantic Suspense Fiction, General, Romance, Women, False Personation, Sisters, Twins, Women Sleuths, Police Dogs, South Carolina, Isle of Palms (S.C.), Fiction, Policewomen, Police Detective, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780743457941
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2003-06-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Detective Aggie Jade held her face up to the sun. It felt warm and comforting. Out of the corner of her eye she could see Alex turning over the dirt by the back porch. Boxes and boxes of scarlet geraniums sat on the steps waiting to be planted. She clenched her hands into tight fists. They felt cold even though the sun was beating down on her.

Aggie dropped to her knees as she unclenched her hands to reach for the bucket at the end of one of the neat rows of carrots. The weeds were growing faster than the organic carrots. Gus prowled the perimeter of the garden. From somewhere off in the distance, she heard a low rumble of sound. She looked up, but the sky was blue, with a fluffy white cloud directly overhead. Not thunder. Alex either hadn’t heard the sound or he was ignoring it. Gus was next to her in the time it took her heart to beat twice. She clutched at him. He whimpered.

And then the sound was all around her. She dived forward, screaming at the same time. Gus was underneath her, shaking. Another heartbeat later, Alex was on his knees beside her. “Easy, Aggie, easy. It was a jet breaking the sound barrier. Are you okay?”

Aggie’s face was whiter than the tee shirt she was wearing. Her voice trembled when she said, “It sounded like…I thought…” She sat up and hugged her knees, Gus crowding next to her. He was shaking as badly as she was.

“Oh, Aggie, jeez, are you all right? What the hell kind of question is that? Of course you aren’t all right,” Alex said, putting his arms around both her and Gus. He talked soothingly of the plane, the warm sun, the puffy white clouds. “You’re safe, Aggie. It was just a bad moment there. You’re okay, Gus is okay, and I’m here. I’m not going to let anything happen to you.”

“I…know…it was just the sound. I wasn’t expecting it. It was like that night when I half expected something to happen. It was so loud. I guess I’m not over it, no matter how much I say I am. Maybe I’ll never be over it. I don’t have any business being a cop.

“All I’ve been doing since Lizzie called is thinking. I need to resign. Lizzie needs to go back to Vegas where she belongs. Let the department handle the investigation. I don’t know what I was thinking when I hatched this scheme. Lizzie’s going to get hurt or, worse, get killed, and it will be all my fault. God, Alex, why didn’t you stop me?” She cried bitterly against Alex’s chest.

Alex was so out of his depth, all he could do was hold the emotionally fragile woman in his arms and croon softly. “It’s all going to work out, Aggie.” He wondered if what he was saying was true.

“You’re such a good friend, Alex. I couldn’t have done this on my own. Even I know that.

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