The Rookie: A Romantic Suspense Standalone (The Intelligence Unit Book 1) by Kimberly Kincaid

Author:Kimberly Kincaid [Kincaid, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-05T18:30:00+00:00

8

Tara pulled into a parking spot a block from the Thirty-Third Precinct and grinned at her good luck. Okay, so it was a bazillion degrees out, and yeah, she’d have to walk that block pretty quickly—in three-inch heels, no less—if she was going to make her meeting with Isabella and the Intelligence Unit. But despite working some breakneck hours to manage both her normal caseload and the trial prep for the Sansone case, she’d been able to spend the last four evenings in a row with Xander, hence her inclination to smile both randomly and often.

He’d surprised her by having a sense of humor nearly as dry as her own, along with a love for Renaissance history and the ability to make a killer dirty martini. He hadn’t surprised her by being smart or pretty quiet about super personal stuff unless nudged, but Tara wasn’t exactly a stranger to guiding conversations. While Xander had remained pretty tight-lipped about some of his past, he’d also told her no less than four dozen stories about his sister, Kennedy, her husband, Gamble, and the rest of the firefighters from Station Seventeen that served as his found family. Although she’d loved listening to Xander go on about his sister and all of their close friends, Tara couldn’t deny the odd ache she’d felt in her chest as she’d listened to him talk.

What would it be like to be close with people like that? To trust that they’d always be there for her? That they’d never leave?

The way she was starting to trust Xander, and God, she didn’t hate it.

“Oh, stop,” Tara chided herself, replacing the smile that had faded from her lips with a newer, if less comfortable, version. Yes, she was enjoying the time she and Xander spent together, and oh yes, she’d definitely enjoyed the steamy goodnight kisses they’d traded over the past week and a half, ever since that first one at his place the night he’d brought Amour dinner. But the thought of belonging with anyone like that? Of being cared for at that level? That deeply?

She might as well be wishing for rainbows and unicorns, with quadruple orgasms on top.

Straightening her shoulders beneath her suit jacket, she scooped up her purse and got out of her car. The walk was as short and hell-hot as expected, and by the time she’d made her way through the lobby, then the metal detectors and security check-in that allowed access to the Intelligence Unit’s offices, Tara was fully focused on the case at hand.

“Hey! If it isn’t my favorite A.D.A.,” came Isabella’s welcoming voice from the midway point in the large, open-concept main office space. Tara had always marveled at how the Intelligence Unit worked as a true team—no cubicles for this crew. The only private rooms were Sergeant Sinclair’s office and the interrogation rooms along the back hallway of the space.

“I bet you say that to all the A.D.A.s,” Tara said, her smile hanging in her voice.

Capelli looked up from the

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