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didn’t give Jackson a chance to retaliate, or let Grizzly Adams get in another punch. She elbowed her way between them. A dirty look was quickly followed by a double take and a quick step backward as the giant recognized her. She snapped her head around to face Jackson in time to see his fist coming at her.
    His eyes widened, but he wasn’t fast enough to correct his aim entirely, and she felt the sting of the glancing blow across her cheek. Shock dropped his arms at his sides, making it easy to jerk one hand behind his back and spin him around.
    She had the crowd’s full attention two minutes too late. “Jackson Knight, you’re under arrest for assaulting an officer and disturbing the peace.”
    “Hayley?” Matt pushed his way to her side, a baseball bat in his hand—the only bouncer her gramps had ever needed to run the place.
    The look on her face kept her brother from talking her out of the arrest. The rest of the surrounding fights had broken up by the time Jackson’s hands were cuffed behind his back.
    Matt winced. “Guess she’s not over that truck thing, bro.”

Chapter Two
    “You arrested the Jackson Knight?”
    Hayley rolled her eyes at the exaggerated disbelief in her partner’s voice, not bothering to ask him to lower his voice. By now most of Promise Harbor had heard about last night, and all the Knight fans she worked with at the station had already given her hell.
    “He was detained for a couple hours without being charged.” No harm done. Which had been her line of defense when her captain called demanding an explanation for cuffing the hometown hero, since the mayor was already on his case.
    She’d been tempted to tell the captain to take a number as the mayor had been on her case since she was at least fifteen years old.
    Her partner, Phil, leaned back in his chair. “Captain didn’t make you smooth things over with Knight this morning?”
    “He realized I would’ve had a much bigger problem if I hadn’t taken Jackson out of the equation.”
    Phil grinned. “I didn’t know you two were on a first-name basis. Maybe you should ask him to be your date to the wedding.”
    She was almost grateful for the change in subject, then remembered she had to dress up for the wedding. “I’m taking Gramps. He’s been looking forward to it for a while.”
    “Too bad. Going with Knight would probably help your reputation after last night.”
    “Dating him in high school would have been more damaging to my reputation than arresting him was.” And she’d led the pack when it came to bad reps in high school.
    Her partner’s feet hit the floor. “You wanted to date Knight in high school?”
    Reaching for the phone, she scowled at him. “That’s not what I said.”
    “So you had a crush on him.” Phil whistled like she’d just fed him the harbor’s juiciest gossip in months.
    She didn’t have a chance to deny it—and by “deny it” she meant throw her team’s hockey trophy at his head—before the nurse answered. Glaring at her partner became less of a priority as she listened to the nurse explain that her gramps had had a rough night and would likely sleep most of the day.
    Apparently she was going to the wedding solo.
    Phil overheard enough of the conversation to guess at the outcome. Unlike half the town, he spared her the sympathetic look. “Don’t tell me, he was awake all night because he heard his granddaughter arrested his star hockey player?”
    “Ass.” She smiled anyway.
    He stood up. “You only came in this morning to catch up on a couple things, and now you’re done. Get going before I change my mind about covering your shift today.”
    “If you and your wife have plans…”
    “You’re not trying to get out of going to the wedding because of last night, are you?”
    Not exactly. “No. I just haven’t heard from Gavin.”
    “So he still doesn’t know his girl is marrying someone else?”
    “Allie hasn’t been his girl for a long time.” And Gavin hadn’t