Special Ops Cowboy by Addison Fox

Author:Addison Fox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-11-29T16:26:05+00:00

Chapter 10

If there was one thing Reese hated the most about small-town life, it was the endless scrutiny. She’d always loathed being the object of that focused attention, but she did take some small solace when that scrutiny worked out in her favor.

Or when it at least gave her advance warning of impending doom.

It had taken Alma Larson all of eighty-seven seconds to alert Jake Walters to the fact that Hoyt Reynolds was nosing around the building, asking to speak to the security office. It had taken him even less time to figure out that the presence of a Reynolds at MPHS was likely associated with Reese and he’d hightailed it down to her classroom to tell her privately before Alma could make much more of the situation.

After her assistant principal left, Reese had sat quietly and fumed for a few minutes, determined to focus on what she’d come to school to do and finish setting up her classroom. But Hoyt’s unexpected visit, coupled with her mother’s disinterest and even distaste for the subject of becoming a grandmother, already had her raw. What was supposed to be a quiet afternoon for herself, designed to get some of her equilibrium back, had taken a sharp turn off My-Life’s-A-Mess Lane straight into Life-Sucks Ville. And to think she had expected a quiet afternoon at the high school after that disastrous visit to her mother.

If Alma caught on that Hoyt was somehow involved with her, she might as well kiss her privacy goodbye and put a for-sale sign on her house now. That was still a likely possibility when the PTA ran her out of town with pitchforks once its members discovered they had a young, unwed, soon-to-be single mother on their teaching roster.

Which was the only reason she’d stayed in her classroom for twenty-seven additional minutes after Jake departed before rushing down to Officer Zacks’s office. It still prickled her that they even had to have a security center, but she pushed that ongoing grumble aside as she marched into the small room where she’d learned to use a computer and which now served as Security Central at Midnight Pass High School.

The object of her ire was there, just as rumored, leaning over a computer monitor with sweet Officer Zacks. Although the older man had told her to call him Alan more times than she could count, she still remembered him as Officer Zacks, a man who her father had always respected and worked under during his early days on the force. She’d grown up seeing him around town, and calling him by his first name seemed weird and disrespectful. Yet another by-product of small-town life.

Everyone knew everyone and even becoming an adult didn’t guarantee you felt like one on the inside.

“Hi, Reese.” Alan waved her in, his expression serious. “Hoyt here was just telling me about that situation with a spider on your front porch.”

She avoided shooting eye daggers at Hoyt—just barely—and kept her smile firmly in place for Officer Zacks. “I think Mr.

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