Wrong Bed, Right Girl by Rebecca Brooks

Author:Rebecca Brooks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Brazen, Action & Adventure Short Stories; Two-Hour Romance Short Reads; Women's Humorous Fiction; Action & Adventure Romance Fiction; Contemporary American Fiction; Contemporary Romance Fiction; Romantic Comedy; wrong bed; opposites attract; protector; forced proximity; sexy; new adult; mistaken identity; Brazen; Entangled Publishing; Men in Uniform; strangers; ballet dancer; handcuffs
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“Hey, Bishop!”

Reed and Aaron both looked up from their desks.

“Some girl up front says she wants to see you.”

Aaron pushed back his chair and reached for his suit jacket.

“Not you,” the officer said to Aaron. He jutted his chin at Reed, who had a slew of gory pictures strewn across his desk. “Hulk over there.”

That got Reed’s attention. And the attention of everyone in the office. He could see the expression on Aaron’s face, thinking there had to be a mistake.

But Reed had a sinking feeling he knew which girl had tracked him down here. Especially a girl pretty enough to have the desk officer’s eyebrows waggling lewdly like that.

Fuck.

“Send her back,” he grumbled, sliding the pictures into their folder to make sure no stray limbs were showing.

He felt Aaron’s gaze boring into him, asking what was up. But he studiously avoided looking over. This was one situation he didn’t want to have to explain.

“Hey, you.”

He’d been expecting it—who else could it possibly be? But it still made his stomach do some sort of acrobatic flip when he heard her voice.

Talia was so out of place walking across his drab office. It couldn’t have been more obvious she didn’t belong. Not with the interrogation rooms, the guns in their holsters, the pictures, bloody and awful, tacked on the walls.

She didn’t belong in his world. She was too beautiful for all the shit he inhabited.

But she walked over like she didn’t notice everyone staring at her, or the horrors all around. Or maybe she just didn’t care. She went straight to him, and it felt like the most natural thing in the world. Even as another part of him was roaring that she shouldn’t be here. This was too close to his life, and she had to get out.

She didn’t have a streak of makeup on, and she looked radiant. Her cheeks were faintly red, her hair pulled back into what was probably once a tidy bun but by the end of the day had wisps of hair breaking free. She was wearing another pair of those fucking yoga pants that drove him wild, a gym bag slung over her shoulder. He could picture her at rehearsal, working for hours, exhausted, and then heading—

Not home, he corrected himself quickly. That was the wrong word for it.

Heading not to his place, but straight here. To see him. For reasons he couldn’t begin to understand.

“So this is where the magic happens,” she said, looking around. “Somehow I imagined it a little less—”

“Shitty?” Reed offered.

“Like maybe it had been repainted since 1979. But what do I know?”

“Talia,” he started, wishing she’d keep her voice down. Wishing everyone wasn’t sneaking glances like it was the news of the century that Reed knew and spoke with another human being not at the office.

Let alone a female human being. Let alone one so strikingly attractive.

But it was too late, because Talia’s eyes had moved from him to Aaron, and a huge grin spread across her face.

“Oh my God,” she said.

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