Waiting for Forever (Hope Valley Book 8) by Jessica Prince

Author:Jessica Prince [Prince, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Leo

“What do you have goin’ on tonight?” I shifted my attention from the report I’d been filling out and looked across my desk at Micah. He was kicked back in his seat, booted feet propped on the edge of his desk, his fingers locked and resting on his gut. “I don’t know about you, but I’m in the mood to hit The Tap Room, have a couple beers, maybe find some company for the night.”

I shook my head good naturedly as he waggled his eyebrows. “You’re on your own, brother. I’ve got some shit I gotta take care of.”

Specifically, I had to go home and change, then go pick up Danika for our date. We were still keeping things under wraps—for now—but there was a steakhouse a couple towns over in Hidalgo called The Groves that was the shit. The food was so damn good, and the atmosphere so cool, there was hardly any chance of getting in without a reservation unless you wanted to wait an hour or longer for a table. Plus there was the added benefit that the place was swanky as hell, so I’d get to see Danika all done up, sitting across from me.

Micah sat up straight, dropping his feet to the ground. “Christ, man. You’re fallin’ down on the job. What happened to bein’ my wingman?”

“If you can’t get yourself laid without my help, I think you might have bigger problems than me droppin’ the ball.”

He tossed a pen across our desks, aiming for my head. I managed to duck just as my cell began to ring. Sitting up straight, I laughed at my partner as I reached into my pocket and pulled it out, taking a look at the screen.

“Hey son,” I answered. “How’s it goin’? Everything good?”

“No, Dad. Everything’s not good. In fact, it’s pretty freakin’ shitty.”

My back shot straight. I wasn’t one to let my kids’ attitude or language slide, but there was something in my son’s voice that I was more focused on. “What’s going on, Hardin? Talk to me.”

“What’s going on is that, right now, Mom’s in her room, cryin’ her eyes out because you’re bangin’ Dani.”

What the fuck?

“Where did you hear that?”

“From Mom,” Hardin shouted hysterically. “Not who I should’ve heard it from, that being you.”

My skin tightened and my stomach dropped. “Okay, bud, I understand you’re upset—”

“You don’t understand shit!” he hissed.

“Watch it,” I snapped into the phone. “I know you’re upset, but you don’t talk to me like that. Ever. You understand?”

“What I understand is that I’ve got a mom who’s heartbroken because the man she was married to, the man she had a family with, the man she’s still in love with, is hookin’ up with a coffee shop owner in the kitchen of her shop!”

There were so many things wrong with that sentence. So many things I needed to handle, but at that moment, there was only one I could take care of.

I shot to my feet, moving from the bullpen in the middle of the station down the hall to the interrogation rooms.

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