Trouble with a Badge by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Alexa wasn’t sure she could sit still much longer and wait for Marcos to arrive. Everything inside her was twisting and churning, and she had nowhere to aim all that nervous energy.

Unlike Levi.

Since they’d arrived at the sheriff’s office, he’d been at his desk working. Either talking to someone on the phone or writing up reports about the attack in the parking lot. Actually, that was what he’d been doing since the day before when Jericho had first called about the possible evidence he’d found against Marcos. Levi certainly hadn’t jumped into a conversation with her about what’d happened on the sofa.

And Alexa wasn’t sure if she should be thankful for that or not.

It’d been a mistake, even if it hadn’t actually felt like one. They had so many more things that should have their attention, and their lives were still on the line. The last thing they should be doing was having sex. Or rather attempting sex.

No way should that happen.

Alexa repeated that reminder to herself and forced her attention off Levi. That didn’t last long at all. Her gaze went right back to him.

Of course, she’d always known he was attractive. Hard not to see that then and now since she was seated only two desks away from him. Levi had definitely inherited those hot Crockett genes. But he’d also been hands off because of the bad blood between his family and her. That bad blood, though, hadn’t been enough to stop the attraction from boiling over, and now Levi was clearly trying to put as much emotional distance between them as possible.

And it was working.

Well, it had been until he lifted his head and their eyes met. He only held the connection for a few seconds. More than enough for her to feel the heat again. More than enough for him, too, since he glanced away, but not before looking thoroughly disgusted with himself.

Alexa was so focused on him that she got a little jolt when someone plopped a disposable cup of coffee with her name written on it in front of her.

Jax.

Like Jericho and Mack, Jax had been at the sheriff’s office when Levi and she had arrived. It made sense, after all, because he was a deputy, but Alexa didn’t think it was her imagination that his family had made sure Jax didn’t have to spend too much time around her. However, Jax hadn’t avoided her.

Now she was the one who did some gaze dodging. It was hard for her to look Jax in the eyes and not be reminded of what’d happened to Paige.

“It’s decaf,” Jax said, tipping his head to the cup. “I had it delivered from the diner. We only have the rocket-fuel coffee here in the office, and you didn’t look as if you needed any more caffeine. Levi said you take it black, so that’s how I ordered it.”

No way could she dodge his gaze after that. “Thanks. I am pretty wired up already.”

He made a sound to indicate he understood.

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