A Proposal for the Officer by Christy Jeffries

Author:Christy Jeffries
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-12-07T16:07:48+00:00

Chapter Ten

“What are you guys doing here?” her nephew asked.

Molly saw her brother-in-law’s eyes zero in on the stretchy blue bandage wrapped around her elbow and she knew the former-MP-turned-police-chief was dying to hear her answer. Her brain spun trying to come up with a plausible explanation. Was it flu shot season? Best to stick to something vague. “Just some routine stuff.”

“Captain Markham!” A corpsman chose that precise moment to come into the room holding out a sheet of paper. “You forgot the printout we downloaded off your glucose meter. We already sent the data electronically to the endocrinology department.”

She pried her fingernails out of her palm to take the offered paper.

“What’s a glucose meter?” Hunter asked. “Is that one of those new virtual-reality headsets for the PlayStations?”

“Speaking of virtual reality,” Kaleb said a bit too loudly as he put his arm around the boy’s shoulder. “I had an idea for a new game and you’re just the person I needed to brainstorm with.”

Molly was left standing there with Cooper as Kaleb lead the boy to the hallway and distracted him with talk of high-tech gadgets. Her brother-in-law studied her without making a sound, as though he had a target lock on her and was deciding how and when to launch the missile.

Instead, she launched her own counterattack. “So what are you guys doing at Shadowview today?”

“Drew asked me to speak at one of his PTSD support groups,” Cooper responded. “Hunter was out of school today and likes to come hang out in this lounge and play video games with the patients who are recovering from their surgeries.”

“How fun. I mean, for Hunter. I’m sure your group isn’t, um...” She glanced at the clock above the doorway. “Well, Kaleb and I better get to the store before it closes.”

“It’s not even noon,” Cooper said, unwilling to back down. “You want to tell me what’s going on, Molly?”

“Not really.” She wiped a trickle of sweat off the back of her neck. Someone needed to work on the air-conditioning in here.

“You don’t have to,” he said, shrugging his shoulders. “Just keep in mind that I was in the Marine Corps once and the only time I ever got an indefinite leave of absence was when I was being medically discharged.”

She squeezed her eyes shut and rubbed her temples. “Nothing’s official. That’s why I haven’t said anything to my sister yet. But I will.”

“In that case, I’m not going to ask you for details because I don’t want to keep anything from my wife. A word of advice, though,” he said before using his chin to gesture toward his stepson. “You should probably tell Maxine before Hunter figures out that he doesn’t actually want to include a glucose meter on his Christmas wish list.”

Molly exhaled. “Right. I’ll definitely tell her before Christmas.”

Cooper just shook his head. That was still seven months away.

Whatever Kaleb had discussed with Hunter was sufficiently exciting enough to make the kid forget about why his aunt was at the hospital in the first place.

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