Harlequin Superromance June 2015 - Box Set: About That Night\A Family Come True\Her Cop Protector\The Good Father by Beth Andrews

Author:Beth Andrews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Harlequin Superromance
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

DEAN RUBBED EYES strained from watching grainy surveillance video and leaned back in his chair. He’d played the bird-shop security video four times since returning to the station. It backed up June Latham’s version of events.

She and the mystery man hadn’t entered the premises together. He’d released the birds while the owner confronted June. She never spoke to the guy before he rabbited out of the store.

Dean lifted his mug from the table and swigged cold coffee. Why the hell did the guy open those cages? Maybe he got religion from the sight of Ms. Latham and decided to help her cause. Dean snorted. That was as likely a reason as any. Who knew why citizens did anything anymore?

And why did he give a fig about June and her smuggled birds? He’d told his rookie the review was good training. Yeah, right.

“I don’t see a crime to investigate,” Sanchez said beside him.

“Not by the woman,” Dean said.

“Glover won’t be happy.”

Dean nodded, remembering the shop owner’s sputtering outrage when June walked free. Hell, even if he tracked down this bird liberator, what would be the charge? A misdemeanor—malicious mischief or some such nonsense. Hardly worth the police’s time. “He’ll get over it.”

“Do you think Glover’s birds are illegal?”

“Who knows?” Dean shrugged. What he really meant was Who cares? “Not our jurisdiction. But I told the woman I’d send my report to Fish and Wildlife.”

A grinning Detective Lloyd Miller entered the viewing room with a steaming mug and glanced at the scene frozen on the monitor. Dean knew what Miller saw. Escaped parrots covering the floor and shelves of the North Beach Pet Shop.

“Whoa, Hawk. So the rumor is true. You got yourself a serious situation here. Birds on the lam, huh?”

“Haven’t you got somewhere else to be, Miller?”

“And here I come with a sincere effort to help your new case,” Miller said with an injured air. “My seven-year-old daughter has a little green parakeet named Birdie Bird. I’m offering her expert assistance with this bird caper.”

Sanchez snickered.

Dean gave Miller the finger. He should be used to the mocking. The entire station had been riding him since the lieutenant busted him back to patrol. Didn’t matter what case he caught, his fellow officers loved to remind him how low he had sunk.

Miller sat down and raised his mug toward the viewing screen. “I say blast those felonious birds from the air with your rifle. Tough shot, I know, but you’re just the man for the job.”

“Are you really as good a shot as they say?” Sanchez asked.

“Oh, he’s good,” Miller replied. “State champion. And very quick on the trigger, right, Hawk?”

Dean squeezed his mug, staring at his trigger finger. Best not to react. The less he said in response to this schoolhouse shit, the quicker the shit would end.

“It’s why we call him Hawk,” Miller added.

“I’ve never taken a shot that wasn’t righteous,” Dean told Sanchez.

“Not even the Wilcox kid?” Sanchez asked.

Dean leveled a look at the rookie. Damn rumors.

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