The Firefighter and the Cop (Ellery Mountain Book 1) by RJ Scott

Author:RJ Scott [Scott, RJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781785640667
Publisher: Love Lane Books Ltd
Published: 2017-05-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Finn arrived back at the mayor’s office and let himself in with the code. Drew was sitting at the small reception desk, peering at the screen of his computer and frowning. This, in Finn’s experience, meant the guy was either working on reports or playing Solitaire—either activity produced frowns of amazing proportions across his brow.

“Hey, Drew,” he said.

Drew looked up, blinked, then smiled. “Cavalry’s arrived,” he said. He stood and leaned over to log his identity out of the PC.

“Is Kathy here?” Finn asked.

“Out the back making good use of the mayor’s behemoth coffee machine.”

“Just in time, then.” That and working in the same building as Max, was possibly the only upside to the station burning down. Yes, they might be sharing one borrowed PC; yes, they might have lost most of their paperwork, and yes, they were sharing two desks between all of them, but at the end of the day, they had coffee. “Anything I should know?”

Handing over was so much more informal in Ellery. Back at his first posting, in Knoxville, and wet behind the ears, a handover had meant signing papers and dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s; it had been routine and structured. Here, despite there being a definite organization, there was room for a much less official handover.

“Fitz is on the move again. Brenda Skylar said there was something happening around the cabin. Lots of banging. She went over to check it out, found him wandering the yard in just his shorts and looking twenty sheets to the wind.”

“When was this?”

“A little before four p.m., but we haven’t had any calls out to pick up his sorry ass.”

“Anything else?”

“Reports dropped off on the fire, scene analysis and the boss had a meeting with the fire guys about possible scenarios and responsibilities. It’s all in the logs.”

Finn smiled. He couldn’t stop himself. His body was still buzzing from what had happened in Max’s kitchen, and the thought of the sexy firefighter being involved in anything remotely connected to Finn made him want to smile.

Drew narrowed his gaze. “Something you wanna tell me, Ryan?” he asked.

Finn shook his head. He wasn’t ready to share Max with anyone yet. “You driving past the cabins on your way home?”

Standard procedure in all things Mike ‘Fitz’ Fitzgerald, was to drive past the place when he was at his worst. None of the cops complained about doing so. A small town meant everyone was intimately involved in what everyone else did. Fitz and his demons included. Something had gone down in his past. He’d left as a soldier in the eighties and returned home a broken man who’d aged dramatically and lost all grip on what was real. Finn couldn’t imagine the memories that rode the man to self-destruction, but they couldn’t be good.

“Yeah, I’ll check it out as usual.” Grabbing his jacket from the hook near the exit he let himself out of the coded door, and Finn watched his fellow cop disappear down the road.

“White, two sugars,” Kathy announced behind him.

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