Harlequin Romantic Suspense June 2021 Box Set by Colleen Thompson

Author:Colleen Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 2

Leo appreciated Officer Rawlins’s effort and dedication. She seemed to be making an attempt to help. Still, Jones was right. He didn’t see how this report would do much good.

He found solutions on a daily basis, a job requirement that utilized his natural analytical tendencies. Translating those skills to his personal life was never as simple or effective as he hoped.

Here in the police station bustling with action, Lara’s disappearance and continued silence was too real. His behavior in the soup kitchen shamed him. The manager had been right not to cooperate based on the way he stormed in and lost his cool.

Leo sat up straight and let his one leg bounce. He needed to move, preferably in the right direction this time. Whatever they said about the general futility of missing person cases, maybe he could convince Officer Rawlins to help him search the area for some sign of Lara. She obviously knew her beat and the neighborhood well. And if the manager at the soup kitchen was any indicator, people trusted her.

With her bright blond hair and earnest, clear blue eyes, she was a ray of sunshine in a wintry gray landscape. She crossed the noisy room, a paper cup in each hand, an angel in a PPD uniform.

“How do you do that?” he asked, taking the cup she offered.

“Do what?” She peeled back the little tab on the lid of her cup and the rich aroma of hot chocolate filled the space between them.

“You seem to just hover somewhere above all of this.” He circled his finger, indicating the room at large.

She watched him as she took a sip of her hot beverage. The heat must have stung her lips. She pressed them together and then her tongue slid across, soothing the burn. His pulse kicked. If he’d ever had a more inappropriate reaction, he couldn’t recall it.

“What’s your office like?” she asked.

“Busy,” he replied. “Not so noisy.” The constant flux of sharp sounds and voices running the gamut from deep to shrill made his ears ring.

She leaned in as if worried she might be overheard. “The noise in here is why I like walking the neighborhood in any weather.”

He could smell the sweet chocolate on her breath and he wanted a taste. What was wrong with him? He was here to track down his sister, not flirt with a cute cop who’d been nice to him when she probably should have arrested him.

He carefully opened the lid on his coffee. “Smart.”

Thankfully, she returned to the business at hand and though it pained him, he gave her everything he knew about Lara’s return to Philly and her subsequent withdrawal from the school.

When the report was in the system, Leo knew it was time to go, but he was rooted to the seat. He couldn’t walk out without some sort of action plan. Would the PPD do anything? “Being realistic, what do you expect to come from this report?” he asked. Please, let her opinion contradict Chief Jones’s.

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