Agent Daddy by Alice Sharpe

Author:Alice Sharpe [Sharpe, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, General
ISBN: 9781426841408
Google: gxQG6_dckcMC
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

THE POLICE STATION LOOKED very much the same as it had the only other time Trip had been inside. Lenny was at the desk, shuffling a stack of papers. When he got a good look at Faith, he straightened his shoulders and came to life. “Can I help you?” he asked, drinking in Faith as though she was a cold bottle of water in the middle of a 10K marathon.

“I need to fill out a complaint,” Faith said.

“Sure, oh, yeah, I got forms,” Lenny said, mumbling his words in his anxiety to please her.

“While the lady does that, I want to see Duke Perry, my former mechanic. Is he still here?”

“Yeah. I’ll take you in. Be right back, Miss. Uh, don’t leave.”

They walked past the chief’s closed door. Trip could hear voices coming from inside and hoped his luck held to the point where he got in and out of the station without actually facing Novak.

The cell block was a simple, old-fashioned situation not seen around much anymore. Three cells, two of them empty, Duke sitting on a cot in the last one. Trip didn’t know if he should credit his FBI years, or the fact that a beautiful young woman waited back in the front, but Lenny quickly left him there alone, with directions to buzz the bell by the door when he was ready to leave.

Duke was in his late thirties, long brown hair worn in a ponytail, tattoos up and down his arms. He had a scraggly beard that hung to midchest, a soft voice and red-rimmed eyes that currently had a hard time meeting Trip’s.

Trip pulled a chair up to the bars. “Duke, I just wanted to tell you I’m sorry you let this happen.”

“Me, too,” Duke said.

“I guess I want to know how it came about. I want to make sure you deserve to be here. You were doing so good.”

Duke looked at Trip and then away. He got off the cot and walked to the far corner where he found himself the shelter of a shadow. “I don’t know,” he said.

“I don’t buy that. You told me you never even went to the tavern anymore, that you’d decided to stay away from temptation.”

“Listen,” Duke said. “I could blame it on the nice guy buying me rounds of drinks, I could blame it on the cold night or the fact my woman took up with her boss last month. What difference does it make?”

“None,” Trip admitted. “I just wish you hadn’t gotten behind a wheel.”

“Yeah, well, me, too. Hindsight and all that. Tell you the truth, I’m glad someone called me in, glad I didn’t hurt no one.”

“Absolutely. I’ll get George Plum to cut you a check for what we owe you.”

“I appreciate that. Maybe I can make bail, go stay with my brother for a while.”

Trip put the chair back where it belonged and buzzed his way out. Faith was waiting for him, papers filled out, ready to leave as soon as Lenny finished telling her what she should do next.

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