Strength Under Fire. Dana Nussio
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Название: Strength Under Fire
Автор: Dana Nussio
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Ужасы и Мистика
Серия: Mills & Boon Superromance
isbn: 9781474048217
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That Ben Peterson even tempted her to step away from what she knew and trusted scared her more than any domestic or shots-fired call ever could. At least with them she had guidelines to follow.
“I don’t know,” she admitted finally. “Are you guilty?”
Something raw flashed in his eyes. Then it was gone. But the mask of nonchalance he used to replace it was something she understood.
“No, I’m not guilty.”
“Neither are most of the suspects I’ve arrested. At least the way they tell it.” It was supposed to make him laugh, but he only pressed his lips into a grim line. “Anyway, you don’t know if I’m the one who set you up, either.”
He studied her for several seconds. “I guess I don’t.”
“Then we’re even.”
Where her previous attempt at humor fell flat, this one must have rubbed his funny bone because he grinned for the first time since she’d arrived.
“Not exactly,” he said. “Only one of us is on a paid holiday of sorts and has been banned from the place he’s been working for ten years.”
“More time to watch cooking shows.”
“Why cooking shows?”
“Well, that’s what I’d do. I like to cook,” she said with a shrug. “I record the shows and watch them after work. They’re my secret addiction.”
He smiled again. “I guess everyone has a few secrets.”
Delia only nodded. He was probably just talking about the shows and about her being a rule breaker, but his comment unsettled her just the same. She knew his secret about his family now. But he didn’t know her secrets, the ones she’d kept so carefully walled off that they seemed like someone else’s life.
She’d never told anyone. She’d never even been tempted to. And yet this reluctant hero, who just might have been moonlighting as an accomplice to a ring of drug dealers, tempted her to hammer through the brick and mortar and let her secrets pour out. Of all the things that scared her about helping Ben Peterson, that one terrified her most.
That truth, and the fact that they’d run out of things to say, had Delia buttoning her coat and slipping her gloves back on. She moved past him toward the door. “I’ll get back to you when I know something.”
At his nod, she opened the door and stepped through it.
As she took a few steps toward her car, he called after her, “Are you gonna tell me why you’re going to all of this trouble?”
The many reasons rushed into her thoughts at once. This was Ben, who’d made an effort to help her. And he was alone right now. If only someone could have helped her when she was alone. Anyone.
But as she turned back to him, she chose only one of the reasons. “It’s the right thing to do.”
He nodded as if accepting her words this time. “But then we both know how seldom people do the right thing.”
Delia just stared at him. He was probably just talking about how in their career they often saw people at their worst. But it seemed like more than that. Did he know about her? How could he? Did she want him to know?
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