Donut A Day by Sattler Gail

Author:Sattler, Gail
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-10-20T16:00:00+00:00

She pushed in the cash drawer, anxious to serve the next customer as soon as the group of four ladies moved out of the way. As they lifted their individual cups and started to clear some space for the next customer, a tall man in a dark suit stepped up to the counter.

Sarah’s breath caught. “Matt?” She glanced from side to side and cleared her throat. “I mean Constable Walker. How nice to see you today.”

He grinned like the cat that swallowed the canary. “Hi, Sarah.” His smooth voice almost made her knees buckle. “I’ll have a Boston Cream and a large vanilla latté.”

She looked up at him, then to the entrance to the washrooms. No other officer appeared to be in the building. She couldn’t see the parking lot through the crowd, so she couldn’t tell if his were the only police cruiser in the lot.

Today, Matt was still wearing his hat inside the building, which he never did when he came in at night for his coffee breaks. Not only was he in uniform, he was in full uniform, including a tie and the jacket, smartly buttoned.

She lowered her voice. “What are you doing here all by yourself? At this hour? It’s seven-thirty in the morning.”

He smiled as he reached into his pocket, pulled out his wallet, and handed her some money. “I’m a cop. This is a donut shop. There’s nowhere else I’d rather be.”

Someone behind him giggled.

Sarah rang his order into the cash register and counted back his change. “Right.”

“I’m on my way to a court hearing so I thought I’d pick up a donut and a coffee. Since I won’t be called out, I can actually drink it before it gets cold.”

“Oh. I guess that means you want this to go.” She turned and hit the button on the latté machine while she put the donut in a bag for him.

“How’re things? Same as usual?”

Sarah glanced quickly around him, at the crowd of people both in her line, as well as in Casey’s. Kristie’s line at the drive-thru had to be twenty cars long. Sarah didn’t know if he just meant in general, or if his question was in some kind of secret code, and she was supposed to tell him if Kincaid had been back with another suitcase for Donnie, which he hadn’t. She didn’t know how to word a coded reply. “Everything’s been about the same as usual, I guess.”

He nodded as she slid the coffee across the counter. “Good. Bye, Sarah.”

Matt walked out of the donut shop, holding himself straight and tall and ever so handsome.

Not only she, but a number of people in the lines also watched him, especially the women.

Sarah gritted her teeth. She didn’t want to care that the other women watched him. She had no claim on him, nor did she ever intend to have a claim on him.

Before she could think about why it bothered her, Sarah leaned forward to the woman who was first in her lineup.

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