Outside the Law. Kara Lennox
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Название: Outside the Law
Автор: Kara Lennox
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
isbn: 9781472027528
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“He was agreeable to the arrangement,” Beth said. “They both want to help.”
The technician checked that the cuff was working, and left. Raleigh left, too, mumbling something about signing out with the bailiff. Finally it was just Mitch and Beth in the room, staring at each other.
“Beth, what are you still doing here?”
“You were the one who wanted me here,” she said coolly.
“Yeah, when I thought I was just going to answer a few questions. Don’t you have work to do?”
“This is my work. I need to be there while they’re processing the car, the gun—”
“Good luck with that.” The Bernadette Parish crime lab wouldn’t let her within five hundred feet of their precious evidence, not until they were good and done with it—which meant making anything that didn’t support their case disappear. Then, if she wanted to run her own tests, Raleigh would have to file requests with the court, a process that could take weeks.
“You don’t want me hanging around.” She studied her fingernails with great interest. “That’s obvious. But you’re not going to scare me away by acting like a jerk. This is work. It has nothing to do with…with our personal relationship. Which we don’t have anyway.”
Beth’s face flushed to a lovely shell-pink as her argument wound down.
What the hell was she talking about? “So you’re no longer my friend?” he asked, just to be sure he understood. “We’re just associates now?”
“I’m not sure we can be friends,” she said glumly. “When a line is crossed…well, I could have just left things alone, but I didn’t and I ruined everything.”
“You ruined it?” What the hell was she talking about? “Sorry, I’m confused.”
“Can we not talk about this?” she pleaded.
“Talk about what?” Why were women so confusing? Why didn’t she just spit out what was bothering her?
“I just want to make sure you understand that I’m here only because Daniel asked me to stay on top of things. I’m not trying to…change your mind.”
He gave up demanding that she clarify; his questions were getting monotonous. When faced with an unreasonable female, his strategy was to agree. Saved a lot of unproductive arguing.
“Okay,” he said, offering up a smile.
With a frustrated sigh, she turned and exited the room, and Mitch couldn’t help appreciating the way her sassy little butt twitched back and forth with each tap of her heel on the hard vinyl floor.
He racked his brain to figure out what was stuck in her craw. Maybe she was so repulsed by the things she’d learned about him recently that she really didn’t want to be friends.
That was a depressing thought.
But she said it was a line she’d crossed, not him. What had she done recently regarding… Wait a minute. The zydeco concert. She’d offered him her extra ticket, and she’d acted kind of strange when she did it, standing in the doorway whispering with Raleigh.
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