Storm Season (Accidental Roots Book 1) by Elle Keaton

Author:Elle Keaton [Keaton, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dirty Dog Press
Published: 2017-03-09T18:30:00+00:00

Thirty-One

There was someone or someones in Skagit dumping young girls’ bodies. Someone had ransacked and then set fire to Micah’s property. And Sara’s. There was the memory card with its devastating content. Gerald’s property was still a fucking mess, and he had to deal with those cars.

Also, suddenly, there were people in Adam’s life who cared—more than the two he was used to. He had never felt so cared for before. Mohammad and Ida tried, but they had a lot of people to keep an eye on. Now there were grumpy old men, Sara, that irritating nurse Joey, and Micah. Whom he hadn’t even known he needed.

So, the man he maybe did give a shit about was right here in his arms kissing him with a passionate fervor, his breath hot against Adam’s cold cheek. He pulled back a little, tugging Micah’s forehead down against his own.

“You are strong. Let me help you with this stuff, okay? Please? Also, we’re both freezing and more than a little wet.” Adam’s boots squished around his toes.

“Okay.” Micah smiled at him, his dimple popping. Adam loved that smile. He could admit to loving Micah’s smile.

They got into the car and Adam pointed it back out onto the highway. He still needed to drive by the crime scene, but the heat was blasting and the defogger worked. They wouldn’t catch cold in the extra ten or fifteen minutes this was going to take.

The rain graduated to a howling storm, and Adam only wanted to get the still-shivering and pale Micah back to town. His lungs did not need this. There was nothing to see; he didn’t even bother getting out of the car, just pulled over where scraps of yellow crime-scene tape were flapping wildly in the wind and stared out the windshield for a few moments before concluding that the body had been dumped out of convenience, not planned. That meant lots of things, none of which he wanted to think about until they were showered and dressed in warm clothing. Or perhaps no clothing. He grinned, putting the car into drive.

Adam was reminded of his first big case. Not the details, but the unsettling feeling he was groping around in the dark, grasping for facts barely out of reach. When he’d been at the police station Lieutenant Nguyen had made it clear she was interested in his input, but was not inviting Adam or his team in officially. Yet. He got it, he did, but he missed having another agent to bounce ideas off. He’d caught himself missing Weir’s company, even if he was a brat.

Micah asked out of the blue, “Why did you become a cop?”

“Fed.”

“Excuse me?”

“I’m with the feds, a federal investigator. They recruited me almost before I started college.”

“Okay, but you could have said no. Why not?”

Adam felt…something behind Micah’s question, though he wasn’t sure what.

“Honestly?”

“Yeah.”

He kept driving, the car silent except for the sound of the tires on the wet asphalt and the rain pummeling the hood. Micah waited for his answer.

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