Joke’s on You by Lani Lynn Vale Page 0,57
training, he’d had to come to lunch, too.
Needless to say, I hadn’t enjoyed lunch. The kid’s ability to treat everyone like shit, from the waitress all the way to the old woman outside that had asked for his assistance in stepping up onto the curb, disappointed me.
I hadn’t been able to get away fast enough.
Sadly, a winning personality wasn’t something that was a requirement to work at the Kilgore Police Department.
“You have a visitor,” he sneered. “Out front.”
With that, he left, leaving me to roll my eyes.
“I really don’t like that kid. And what the hell did you do to him to warrant him acting like that?”
I looked over in surprise at Saint.
“You don’t?” I asked. “When would you have talked to him?”
“He came into the bathroom the other day when I was taking a piss. Took the urinal right next to mine.” He paused. “Who the fuck does that?”
“The rookie is an asshole,” I admitted. “And he didn’t like it that I gave him a dressing down in front of my father because he refused to offer an old lady assistance in getting up onto the curb. He literally looked at her and walked away. It was embarrassing the way he conducted himself. Who wouldn’t have helped her?”
“Sounds like a piece of shit.”
Chuckling and agreeing with Saint’s observation, I gathered up all of my paperwork and dropped it off into the Sergeant’s bin before heading up front.
I was two steps into the bullpen when I spotted my ‘visitor.’
Grinding my teeth, I made my way up to David, Dillan’s dad.
“How can I help you?” I asked stiffly.
“You can help me by asking Dillan to drop the charges on Kerrie,” he said. “Then, you can help even more by getting the hell out of my daughter’s life. It wasn’t good enough that you ruined one daughter? Now you have to ruin two?”
I stiffened and glared.
“She’s not pressing charges. And I didn’t ruin either of your daughters,” I found myself saying. “And I would hardly call sleeping with both of them as ruining them.” I hesitated. “But, if you’d like to know, I only willingly slept with Dillan. I was drugged by Kerrie, the man that tried to kill your daughter yesterday, when I unknowingly slept with Delanie.” I paused. “Do you want to see pictures of your daughter’s neck? I took some this morning when she was sleeping in my bed.”
David straightened his spine and crossed his arms over his chest.
“You have to be confused,” he said. “Kerrie wouldn’t have done all those things.”
“We have video proof,” I said. “In case your daughter’s word wasn’t good enough.”
David bared his teeth.
“Talk to her about dropping the charges,” he urged.
With that, he left, leaving me standing in the middle of the busy bullpen watching him go.
“Your future father-in-law is a piece of shit,” one of the female officers observed.
It took me a second to realize that it was someone I knew.
“Hey, Ashe.” I gave her a half-hearted grin. “How’s the baby doing today?”
Ashe patted her small baby belly.
“I have indigestion.” She paused. “But at this point, I think it’s because he caused it.”
She gestured at David’s retreating back.
“He caused what?”
I looked over to see Ford, Ashe’s husband and a fellow member of the SWAT team, staring at the two of us with concern.
I grinned. “My future father-in-law decided to tell me that I ruined two of his daughters in the middle of the station.” I gestured to his wife. “And your wife got to listen to it.”
Ford rolled his eyes. “My wife is a nosey little thing, isn’t she?”
Ford curled his arms around Ashe’s shoulders and pulled her into his body.
Ashe tugged lightly on Ford’s beard.
“Whatever,” she said. “I’m going to lunch. Are you coming with me?”
“It’s only eight forty-five in the morning, Ashe,” Ford said. “You can’t go to lunch yet.”
She gave him a brow raise. “Oh yeah? Why not?”
“One, because it’s not even nine yet. Two, because you have things to do,” he said. “Three, because your uncle being the chief of police won’t save you from being fired.”
That’s when we all burst out laughing.
Being the chief of police’s niece would save her from being fired, and we all knew it.
Chuckling at the two of them despite the bullshit David had just spouted, I pulled out my phone and placed a call to my woman.
I wasn’t too worried when I didn’t get her to answer.
My next call was to Laric.
Yesterday, when Dillan had been determined to get the donuts decorated and