When Love Intrudes (When the Mission Ends) by Snow Christi

Author:Snow, Christi [Snow, Christi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-10-15T21:00:00+00:00

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She hadn’t spoken to Brian in several hours as they crossed the increasingly dry desert landscape. It’d gotten dark hours ago. She’d come close to talking to him a few times since Nathan had fallen asleep, but she didn’t know what to say. She was completely overwhelmed with everything that had happened in the last twenty-four hours. First the kiss and conversation by the fire last night, which had kept her tossing and turning all night long.

Then there was the craziness this morning. Had she imagined it when he’d said he’d quit his job? She couldn’t envision Brian without him being on the police force. It was so much of an integral part of who he was.

He startled her out of her musings when he quietly asked, “Are you okay?”

She leaned up between the bucket seats. Sam and Nathan had both managed to curl up into the other bucket seat together and Sam lifted his head. She gave him a quick ear scratch before she answered Brian’s question. “Shouldn’t I be asking you that?” She moved her hand to touch his arm, simply because she wanted the connection to him in the dark of the car. “How’s your back?”

“It’s fine. It barely even stings anymore.”

“How much farther is it? I know you have to be exhausted.”

“It’s just another couple of hours to go. I’ll be fine,” he answered quietly.

“Now for the harder question—how are you feeling? In a single day, you totaled your truck and your job. This is much worse than sending you to the ER with food poisoning. I’m sorry we pulled you into this mess, Brian.”

“No.” He threaded his fingers through the fingers on her hand. “This is not your fault. This is not Nathan’s fault. This is the fault of some heinous men who will pay for their crimes and the corruption that appears to go along with it within the police department. I’m going to do everything I can to ensure that happens.”

His voice was forceful, but even in the dark she could hear the pain behind it. First and foremost, Brian was a cop.

“What happened today? How did you end up quitting the police force?”

He let go of her hand to run his fingers through his hair in frustration. She watched the gamut of emotions flit across his face from the soft glow from the dashboard. “I’m not sure how far it goes, but my captain is almost definitely corrupt. He basically told us to drop the case. I questioned him on it and that didn’t go over too well. In the end, I flat out lost my temper and quit. It probably wasn’t the best way to handle it. I sure as hell shouldn’t have blurted out what happened to you at the grocery store. You could have been killed today because of that. I’m so sorry, Toni. I endangered you again.”

The pain in his voice shattered her. “Hey, if I can’t take responsibility for the bad guys in all this, then neither can you.

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