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I flipped through the hundreds of ed with Reeve over the last few es They were flirty and fun She seemed to really like the dirty fed She told hi the week She thanked hi her by her past actions She told him that he made her feel special and safe

He responded with flip answers and easy reassurances He told her she was beautiful, that she was gorgeous, that she was a prize While Reeve spoke to hi in love, Roark replied like a er to show off and flaunt His title and his badge had done a lot to win her over, her looks had done everything to convince him to break protocol and take her to bed I understood the temptation

It was the newerup to the fire at the club, that were the rown up in the Point and had lost a sister to the vicious and unforgiving ways of the streets She was not only street-ser She started texting hi on the weekends and why he wouldn’t talk to her about what he was up to She asked why he was in the Point for reasons that had nothing to do ork She asked hiht It wasn’t unco wasn’t tracking She asked him who Zero was and why had he shown up at her place in the secure location looking for hi was off and that Roark wasn’t who he claimed to be

He tried to put her off He texted that he was in the h profile, and he sized for all the secrecy and double talk He promised to take her somewhere tropical and warm as soon as the trial for the rest of Novak’s creas over, and when none of that seeuns and told her that he loved her That shut her down for exactly one day She told him she loved him back and then went silent

After the declaration there were no es between the two of theoons watching Brysen and Dovie He also had eyes on Spanky’s, the strip club that was now the de facto operating headquarters for Nassir since the Pit was gone Spanky’s was also where a stripper nah, they would see that if Nassir had any kind of weakness, it was her The texts indicated that whatever was driving Roark was aht to the heart of those willing to stand sentinel between his were going to get uglier and bloodier before I could put a stop to it

The texts stopped because it was apparent that the next tied his phone and headed back to the city in order to hand it over to me She saw his profession of love for what it was, a smoke screen, and had done what she had done since the first ti her own ass and I bet Roark was suy, as a member of law enforce I would wagerand that I wasn’t the only one that would be looking for him I made a mental note to put a call in to the ent

“Well, fuck” I tossed the phone on the desk, curled my hands into fists, and shoved them into my eye sockets I could feel a headache start to coil around the base of my neck and throb behind the back ofaway inside my skull

I pushed out of roaned with relief The door to my office rattled in the jamb as I slammed it shut behind ivelooks as I stalked toward the front doors of the station

Fresh air wasn’t so to find in the Point, but I needed to be outside, needed the freedoed beast I pulled my already loosened tie the rest of the way off my neck and pulled my own phone out of my back pocket I was about to oing to make

It rang and rang on the other end At first I thought she wasn’t going to answer and then I thought that if she didn’t I was going to get in le road of the city until I found where she was holed up When you looked like her there was nowhere that you could hide

Finally, when I was at the end ofup and probably throw the phone across the parking lot, her sly across the line

“Well, that was fast, Detective”

I bentat the scuffed toes of my boots and wondered like I had a million times before why I just didn’t walk away from this life I had the credentials I had the skill level I could be a cop in any city, anywhere in Ao a step further and join the feds if I wanted to What kept ht When I was younger I’d tried s up on the Hill All that had taught s were everywhere The zip code didn’t reallyto do that until I drew my last breath

“You’re right I do need you, Reeve” And God help us all

She gave a chuckle that had no hu I’ve wanted you to say those words to ”

I had no clue what she was talking about, but I had a bad feeling about what getting into bed with her meant for mea professional bed or otherwise In either case this girl was trouble

Chapter 3

Reeve

I TOSSED AND TURNED all night long and it had nothing to do with the fact that Conner had to knoas gone by now and that he must knoas the one that had his phone I had only had a few seconds left alone with the device before it locked, so I wasn’t sure how far down the slippery slope Conner had tuliht was my savior was actually a rowled that he neededandstupidly, but his words also told h on that phone to bury Conner He wouldn’t have bothered with me otherwise