Justice Buried by Patricia Bradley

Author:Patricia Bradley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense;FIC042060;FIC042040;FIC027110;Christian fiction;Mystery fiction
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2017-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

Brad was quiet as they drove across town to her parents’ house to pick up her car. She’d pushed him too far trying to find out why he didn’t have a girlfriend. Not that Kelsey cared one way or the other. She was just trying to find out why a good-looking catch like Brad hadn’t been caught. So why had she been disappointed when he said he’d seen his ex?

“Look, I’m sorry if I crossed a line or something about your fiancée,” she said. “It must have hurt to give her your heart and have her trample all over it.”

He shrugged. “No big deal. I’m a big boy, and I got over it.”

She didn’t believe that for a second. “Are you thinking about giving this Elle another chance? I mean, you’re still a cop. How will she deal with that?”

“We’re just talking right now. How about you? Who broke your heart?”

“No one.”

“Are you saying that never happened to you?”

“Yep. I never gave any guy the opportunity to break my heart.” Actually, she never gave anyone the chance to get close enough.

“Why not? Haven’t you heard that ’tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?”

She thought about the relationships she’d been in. Did any of them qualify as love? One man in particular surfaced. Joey DeMarzo. Laughing blue eyes, more muscles than brains . . . They’d wanted different things out of the relationship. “I might have loved someone once, but it wasn’t enough to keep him around.”

“Your dad? That had nothing to do with you.”

“My dad?” She shot him a quick glance. “No. I mean, yeah, he took off, but it was because he didn’t want to get caught stealing. It had nothing to do with me. I’ve had a really good male role model in Sam, anyway. The guy I referred to was someone I met in Jackson.”

“What happened?”

“I don’t know. Like all my relationships, it started out well. We were having fun, no arguments, lots of common interests—I do play a good game in the beginning. But that’s as far as it went. Once he got to know me, the relationship was toast . . . again.” She turned to him and grinned. “But at least my heart’s never been broken, not even by him.”

He caught her eyes and held them. “Maybe because your heart was never involved.”

“Involving one’s heart is highly overrated,” she said and turned to look out the window at the empty storefronts they were passing. “Sabra says I pick men who have no staying power. And she says I do it on purpose.”

“Is she right?”

“Maybe it’s me who doesn’t have the staying power.” Not in men, not in jobs, not in anything.

They stopped for a red light, and Kelsey shifted her gaze to him. His dark brown hair curled on his neck, like he was a week past a haircut. And the resolute cut of his square jaw reminded her of how he didn’t back down when she challenged him.

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