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“This isn’t Chicago. Nantucket is safe. You scared me to death! Is that a gun in your hand?” Heather asked.
Оглавление“Yes, and crime happens everywhere,” J.C. responded.
“The noise we heard is probably feral cats. I caught them rooting through my trash a few days ago.”
J.C. took a quick look around her backyard and confirmed that two cats had indeed stuck their noses in the trash bin.
“Sorry to raise an unnecessary alarm,” he said.
“You must travel in rough circles.”
In Heather Anderson’s world, cats were the biggest predators on the street.
He, on the other hand, had spent his career dealing with lowlifes. And he’d been doing it for so long he didn’t know how to behave around a woman who was untouched by the raw side of life.
“Well, thanks again.” Turning, she disappeared through her back door.
Suddenly, an odd sensation settled in J.C.’s chest. One that had nothing to do with the guilt he’d been carrying for the last month. This was related to a woman with beautiful hazel eyes.
