She’d made mistakes, some in an inebriated fog that had made it almost impossible to recall them in detail.
Now when she looked at Austin or heard about his escapades, it brought back all those memories. Including the way she’d once plastered herself to him in a kiss that was so hot it could have set their clothes on fire. Even the memory of it made her ache with embarrassment all over again.
Now so glad she hadn’t eaten more than she did, she wadded up her napkin and she tried that excuse on for size. Was that really the root of her problem? Austin merely brought back memories?
Chewing, she thought about it some more and tried to convince herself of that fact.
And then realized that while a person could fool a lot of people some of the time, it was near impossible to fool yourself.
Not more than once, anyway. Tossing the rest of her sandwich in the trash, she stomped to her office, checked her emails, then two hours later got into her cruiser and headed back over to the high school.
When they visited before, she’d been pleased to realize that Mrs. Marks had been willing to accept Dinah’s suggestions for getting some of the kids back on track. They’d both agreed that getting to know the kids better was key, so she was going to visit a couple of classrooms.
Dinah had a feeling getting the kids to trust her was going to be something of a challenge. After all, when she had been in high school, the last thing in the world she would’ve wanted to do was visit with a sheriff.
Suddenly, she remembered what Flynn had said about those puppies of Angie’s. Picking up her cell, she called Angie and asked if she could borrow a couple of the stray pups for a few hours.
She could use the puppies as a reason to talk to the kids. Talk to them about the dangers of dropping off stray animals.
A lot of people would go out of their way to avoid the sheriff. But a pair of cute, cuddly puppies?
Now, that was a whole other story.
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