“Think you can find out?” I asked my brother.
Trey grinned. “I don’tthink, little brother. IknowI can.”
thirty-five
. . .
LANE
After leaving the school,I went back to work. I’d just lifted my ice-cold coffee to my mouth when the door to my office burst open, revealing Sutton wearing a stricken expression.
I was out of my chair in a flash, pulling her in and closing the door behind her.
“What happened?”
“I’ve been put on administrative leave,” she said flatly.
“Baby,” I breathed. “Fuck, I’m so sorry.”
For her sake, my tone remained gentle, but inside, I was seething. She had given so much to the community over the years in her role as a paramedic, and for them to spit on that over some bullshit accusation made me want to burn this entire fucking town to the ground.
“It’s temporary, right?” she said, offering me a sad, half-smile. “Until they catch the real perp.”
It fucking better be.
“What can I do?”
“Hold me,” she said.
I obeyed easily. Pulling her into my arms, I squeezed her probably a little tighter than was necessary, but she didn’t protest. Then she added, “And find whoever is doing this to me.”
“Consider it done,” I vowed. I wouldn’t tell her I was already working on it, not until I actually had something to report. And I wasn’t about to bring up the Boyd family if I didn’t have to.
She squirmed a little in my arms, and I loosened my hold only enough so she could prop that pretty little chin on my chest and stare up at me with those gorgeous, glowing amber eyes.
“Have I ever told you how sexy you look in your uniform?”
I grinned, some of the tension bleeding from us both. “Nope.”
“Well you do.” She smoothed her hands over my chest and shoulders, across the badge pinned on the left side. “Sosexy.”
I traced my fingertip over the Dusk Valley Fire Department logo emblazoned on the front of her shirt. “You too.”
“Do me a favor.”
“Anything.”
“Kiss me.”
“Happily.”
Ducking my head, I captured her mouth with mine, keeping things light.
At least, I tried.
Sutton, however, dug her fingers into the hair on the back of my head and tugged me closer, licking at the seam of my lips and stroking my tongue with hers when I let her in.
“Make me forget, Lane,” she murmured against my mouth.
