Page 23 of Catch Him
Chapter 7
“What are you wearing?”
Sinead smiled into her phone. “A police uniform,” she told him. She was just getting into her patrol car, ready to report into the station and begin her shift, but she had a minute to talk. For David.
“Oh yes, it’s all coming back to me. I remember you looking particularly hot in it,” David said into her ear.
Sinead snorted. “I look particularly butch in this uniform. Didn’t know you were into that sort of thing.”
“That’s not what I remember at all. I remember thinking your utility belt with your gun attached was sexy as shit.”
Sinead chuckled. “You’re impossible.”
“Yes, you have said. Do you get a break at all during your shift?”
“Yeah, I usually take a half hour at this all-night Denny’s and grab some coffee and food. Helps push me through the final few hours.”
“Does thisDenny’sserve good food?”
Obviously he’d never eaten at a Denny’s. “Uh, no. Not really. It’s mostly just crap, but at two in the morning, you can’t expect much.”
“Then tell me the name of your favorite restaurant and I’ll arrange to have them stay open for you, so you can eat something delicious.”
Sinead shook her head.
“Was that too over the top?” he asked when she didn’t reply. “I know, I know. I’m disgusting with how rich I am. It’s awful to think you can get people to do anything you want simply by paying them loads and loads of money… but the sad truth is you mostly can.”
Sinead didn’t doubt that, but she was certain she wasn’t the sort of person who would feel comfortable in that environment. She tried picturing herself in a restaurant by herself with all these people hanging around to serve her. Nope. Not her style at all.
“Denny’s is good enough for me.”
“Can I join you?”
“At two in the morning? I would imagine you’re usually asleep by then.”
“Usually.”
Sinead remembered thinking that three days of distance would be a good thing to keep this fling under control. However, three days suddenly seemed like a lifetime. She did want to see him.
“How about this? If you want, we can make plans for a late lunch tomorrow. After my shift I usually sleep until one and then eat around four, when I’m actually hungry. I could see you then before heading to work.”
“Beautiful. It’s a date. I’ll start planning it now.”
Uh oh. Sinead was starting to understand David didn’t do a simple lunch. “Nothing over the top,” she told him. “I have to work tomorrow night too.”
“Yes, darling.”
Great. She actually liked the fact that he called her darling. So not good, but what the heck. For now she had decided she deserved this. She deserved him. For however long he was hers.
“I have to go to work now. You know, the whole protect and serve thing.”
“I feel safer knowing you’re out there, however I realize now this job you have… it actually puts you in physical jeopardy.”
Sinead barked out a laugh. “You’ve seen Mill Valley, right? The most physical jeopardy I’m typically in is from a paper cut when I’m writing up a jaywalking ticket. And there aren’t too many of those at night. It’s a pretty quiet town.”
“Excellent. Well, be safe anyway, and I shall see you tomorrow.”
“Yep. Night David.”
