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She tried to reach for the keys in the ignition and still came up short Not that it would help much at the moment since she was ass-in-the-air-stuck-as-shit

She didn’t kno long she hung there, scraping her boots along the outside of the car, likely adding to the hundreds of scuffs that were already there As if her night couldn’t get any worse, a flash of blue and red ca sound Like boots walking up on the pavement

“Good evening ma’am,” a deep voice came from behind—literally behind—her

“Oh god,” she whispered Between the darkness, dangling nearly upside down, and the hair in her face, she couldn’t see uess…

“I’ to a call about a prowler and possible break in”

Yep Deputy Great

“I’ for her best composed voice, which was kind of a joke at the moment “This is my car” And who the hell would have called? Every shop on the street was dark and closed

“Happen to have some ID to prove that?”

“Do I look like I have ID on me at the moment?”

“You look like you confused a car for a hula-hoop,” he responded, nother shit

Even though Mia was beyond annoyed, the charis of awareness race up her spine

Weird, since the last tihteen, and Sheriff Branch with his potbelly, bald head, and genuine smile, ran the Sheriff’s Department

But that voice didn’t sound potbellied or bald headed Nope It sounded hot And whoever the deputy was, Mia didn’t recognize hiht re it had been since she’d had a man

She looked at her purse, which she was now regretting tossing through thebecause it lay out of reach

“I can’t really get to my ID at the moment,” she said and tried to yank herself backward to at least get out of the sunroof, which scrapped her side thanks to her shirt riding up and she let out a small shriek of p

ain

“Whoa, hold on there,to take your word for it that this is your car but I don’t want you to hurt yourself”

He caht He’d clih her upper half was technically in the car and the winter air was chilling her lower half, she could sne and feel the heat radiate fro over hers

He tugged a bit on the seal, the back of his fingers brushing against her waist She shivered a little and her blood picked up velocity, shooting awareness and adrenaline and, yep, lust, through her veins

Was she really that hard up that the barest touch and smell of a man sent her body into overdrive?

Yes…yes she was

But in her defense he did sood