snorted. “Oh, now, that’s something I can stop the presses for.”
She wasn’t as tough as she made herself out to be. He waited.
“Oh, all right,” she said crossly. “What do you want from me?”
Too much. He shoved the thought away.
“I want you to wait for me over there,” he said quietly, “while I finish talking with the investigating team. And then I’d like it if you’d go with me to the station house so I can take your statement.”
“You can’t take it here?”
He could, of course. But he wanted her away from the crime scene. A vicious sexual assault might be news in sleepy Eden. But to a town that depended on tourism, it could also be a public relations disaster. And to the new police chief, the attack at the beginning of his watch was a personal and professional spit-in-the-eye.
Especially if his own department was implicated.
He met her gaze steadily. “No point in being uncomfortable. You want to give the station house coffee a shot?”
The memory of her words trembled between them. Offering you coffee is what got me into trouble in the first place.
Tess hugged her arms across her waist. Lifted her chin. “Maybe I’ll let you buy me a drink instead.”
“It’s a little early for that.”
“Why don’t we see how long this takes? I’ll just get my butt back on the other side of your police tape until you’re ready for me.”
Jarek watched as she walked away and bent back under the yellow crime scene tape. Her butt. Yes.
Sweet coughed. “Looks like you’ve got yourself a hot one, Chief.”
Jarek stiffened. “Excuse me?”
“Hot lead,” the lieutenant said. “If DeLucca really knows anything worthwhile, that is.”
Sweet was a jackass. Tess was a complication. And Jarek had never felt more like an outsider in his life.
“We won’t know that until I take her statement,” he said calmly, and turned back to the scene of the crime.
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