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Might quit my job to focus on summer.
—Atlas to Pepper
ATLAS
“Light’s green, you can go.”
I glanced at the woman in my rearview mirror, who just so happened to also be in the back of my police cruiser with a set of iron bars between us, and said, “Would you like to drive?”
“Sure,” Pepper offered, batting her eyes at me.
She looked adorable in her little hotel concierge outfit.
I almost hated that I had to arrest her in it.
All I could think about as I placed the cuffs around her wrists was I should be doing this in the privacy of her bedroom.
I narrowed my eyes at her. “Too bad. You’re under arrest, remember?”
She rolled her eyes heavenward. “You do realize, right, that I was doing the Lord’s work?”
I mean, sure. I agreed that maybe she was doing the right thing.
However, the way she was going about it was completely wrong.
“You were giving out sensitive information to those women,” I said.
“I was not,” she lied.
To my face.
She hadn’t admitted to a single thing.
Ultimately, it was her word against the hotel’s.
“Regardless of whether you admit to that or not,” I said as I took a right-hand turn into the police station. “You were still trespassing and refused to leave the property.”
Which she knew damn well and good was true.
“That’s where I live,” she countered.
“Not anymore,” I said.
“You have to post a notice of eviction.”
“You’re living at a hotel. The same rules don’t apply,” I shot back.
“They apply,” she replied mutinously.
We arrived at the station, and I was unsurprised to find a couple of my brothers in the back waiting for my arrival.
“This is going to be bad,” Auden said. “Maven’s going to murder you.”
“Maven will understand that I’m doing my job,” I said as I opened the back door.
“Maven won’t understand. You’re deluding yourself,” Pepper countered. “What are you even doing in uniform? I thought you were some fancy pants that only worked SWAT now. Do you even know how to do this part of the job anymore?”
“Watch your head,” I said as I all but yanked her out of my car.
