Wanting You by Leslie A. Kelly

Author:Leslie A. Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Evie Fleming! Just the person I wanted to see,” a male voice said Saturday morning as she sat in the room in headquarters she’d been given to use for research. She was alone, or she had been until the door had been pushed open and a man had come in.

It wasn’t Rowan. He’d made an appointment to see Captain Avery and had followed her in this morning. She’d found the overprotective man sitting in his car right in front of her house. Judging by his clothes and the redness of his eyes, it didn’t take much to figure out he’d been parked there all night, her own private bodyguard.

God, she wished he had just come in and spent the night. This stalemate between them was infuriating. It was time she did something about it.

But first she had to deal with this.

“Hello, Lieutenant Carlton,” she said, offering him a small, polite smile. And definitely no encouragement.

He didn’t need any, or even an invitation. Ignoring the fact that she was obviously working, a pencil stuffed behind one ear, her reading glasses perched on her nose, and a highlighter pen in her hand, he sauntered in. The center table on which she was working had reports, maps, photos, and files strewn over every inch of its surface. He pushed some charts out of the way so he could sit on the table’s edge directly in her line of sight.

She had no clue why men did that. There were several perfectly good chairs in the room. What was the point of balancing on the edge of a table right in front of a woman’s face? Just to try to get them eye level with whatever magnificence they had in their pants? Men obviously just did not understand women’s brains and how to pique their sexual interest. A point proved every time any man anywhere sent an unsuspecting woman a dick pic.

“I’ve been watching for you all week, but I kept missing you. Guess you’re going in and out a lot, huh?”

Maybe, but she had spent long stretches of hours in this room. Plus, every time she entered the building, she had to sign in. It shouldn’t have been that hard for him to find out she was here working, if he’d cared to look. Though why he would have wanted to, she didn’t know.

Frankly, she was glad he hadn’t. But it was confusing that he now acted as though he’d been staking out the door. Could it be, she wondered, that he hadn’t come into the room before now because Rowan was almost always in there with her? And had he approached her this morning because she was alone? Hmm.

“Um, so what did you need to see me about?”

“Huh?”

“You said you were watching for me all week. Does Captain Avery need something from me?” She started to rise. “Oh, of course, he probably wants me to come into the meeting with Rowan…er, Detective Winchester.”

“Oh, no, it’s not that.”

She waited. He smiled a smarmy smile.

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