Break Away by Diane Benefiel

Author:Diane Benefiel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romantic suspense, a secret that can tear them apart, a small town in the high sierra mountains, an attraction neither of them can deny, big city cop returns to hometown pd, escalating danger, he is investigating her case, her high school crush moves next door, scary and weird things start happening to her, she breaks all her rules to be with him
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group

Chapter Twelve

Zoey stood in line at the post office. Three people were ahead of her, two looked like they had multiple packages to send. She wanted to get home, take a shower, then try to put a little effort into her appearance for her non-date with Levi. But she had a card to send her brother for his birthday, and she wanted to pick up the cool solar eclipse stamps that changed color with heat. He’d like that.

Levi was sneaky. He’d slipped the idea of a kiss into her head, and it had lodged there ever since.

Kissing Levi again would be disastrous. She knew exactly how hot a kiss between them could get, and from there it would be a slippery slope into more. She figured she was already on that slope by accepting his non-date invitations, but had she said no? Of course not.

She’d tried to stick to her date-no-cops rule. Cops were controlling, some too easily abused their authority, and, as she’d seen more than once, were too often willing to sacrifice the community they were supposed to serve to protect fellow officers.

Except Levi didn’t fit the mold. He seemed honest and caring, and restrained in his interactions with others. Despite that, she’d seen him drop the laid-back persona and shift to cop mode in the blink of an eye. Maybe he had to do that for the job, but she had trouble trusting him not to revert to type. You never could tell.

He’d evaded answering her about what led to him leaving the Oakland PD, which had her wondering what he was hiding. She hadn’t searched him on the Internet, and she wasn’t sure why. Maybe she wanted him to tell her himself. He’d avoided the subject when she’d brought it up, and maybe he didn’t want to fight with her about something neither of them would change their minds about.

She shuffled forward and bit back a sigh of impatience when the sole postal clerk chatted loudly with the next in line, a woman with a daughter due to go into labor at any moment, and could Patsy (the clerk) guess what the daughter’s rat bastard husband had done? Trying hard not to listen, Zoey told herself that the benefits of living in a small town far outweighed the drawbacks.

“This is taking forever, isn’t it?”

Zoey turned to the voice behind her. The woman, probably in her mid-thirties but making a valiant effort to appear at least a decade younger, rolled her eyes.

There wasn’t much else to say but to commiserate. “Seems like.”

The woman stuck out a hand and gave her a broad smile. “Are you new in town?”

Her ripped skinny jeans were so tight on her thin frame that Zoey worried about the woman’s circulation, while her hair, held back with a big clip, looked overly bleached and brittle.

After having her hand pumped enthusiastically, Zoey gave her a brief smile. “More or less.”

“I’ve lived here my entire life. I know just about everybody.” Her gaze focused on the nametag on Zoey’s uniform.

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