Justice for Boone: Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes, Book 6 Read Online Free PDF

wearing her uniform, complete with a bulletproof vest and utility belt, with all of the things that cops carried with them, but he’d always been attracted to women who were quite a bit shorter than he was…Dana notwithstanding.
    The deputy was fair skinned and he thought he saw a few freckles on her face. She had no problem meeting his eyes and he thought the way she bit her lip and furrowed her brow when she was concentrating was cute. All in all, he couldn’t say exactly what it was that drew him to her like a moth drawn to a flame, but somehow he knew that she was a woman he’d like to get to know better.
    At the moment, he certainly appreciated the deputy’s no-nonsense tone and the fact that she seemed to actually be listening to him, and not assuming he was a girlfriend-beating asshole, as her partners obviously did. That went a long way toward making him like her from the start. From the moment she’d stepped into his house and met his eyes, he somehow knew she was his best chance at getting out of the shit-pile Dana had piled at his door.
    Her questions were certainly odd, compared to what her partners had asked; they’d stuck to the facts. But Boone really didn’t care as long as she saw through Dana’s bullshit. He knew it wasn’t likely though. The police were obligated to arrest the man if the woman showed signs of abuse.
    He went back into the room he’d been in earlier, tried to tamp down his instinctive desire for the competent deputy, knowing this definitely wasn’t the time or the place, and waited for one of the cops to pull out a set of cuffs and tell him to turn around.
    “Will you wait here a moment? I need to talk to my partners,” the woman he couldn’t seem to get out of his mind asked.
    “Of course.” He watched as she walked to the large archway and motioned for her partners.
    Hayden, Jimmy, and Troy stood between the two front rooms, making sure Dana and Boone stayed away from each other while they discussed their next steps.
    “So, who wants to take Mr. Hatcher in?”
    “Wait a minute, Jimmy. Boone is the victim here,” Hayden said with certainty.
    “What? Like hell,” Jimmy returned. “She’s got visible bruises on her face and on her wrist. The law says we have to take him in.”
    Hayden looked Jimmy in the eyes. “Do you trust me?”
    “With my life,” he said without hesitation. “You’re one of the best deputies we’ve got.”
    Hayden felt better at his immediate response. “Then follow my lead here. I’m right. I know I am.”
    Jimmy nodded and Hayden looked at Troy. He’d tilted his head at her. When their eyes met, he spoke.
    “You are one spooky chick, Hayden. I don’t know what you’ve got up your sleeve, but I haven’t known you to be wrong before. I’m in.”
    “Thanks, Troy. Just keep her covered…okay?”
    Jimmy and Troy nodded and they all turned back to Boone and Dana.
    “Mr. Hatcher, please come with me.” Hayden motioned toward the room Dana was sitting in. Boone followed her and they all convened in the small front room.
    Hayden got right to the point. She’d learned that was always much better than beating around the bush.
    “Dana, you’re under arrest for false accusations of domestic abuse and trespassing.”
    “What?” Dana shrieked and stood up abruptly, all images of the poor abused girlfriend cast from her as if she was a snake shedding its skin. “What kind of dyke cop are you? He hit me. I have bruises!”
    Jimmy and Troy had come up beside Dana and each took an arm in one of their hands, so she couldn’t move.
    “Okay, we’ll start there, since you brought it up.” Hayden walked over to Dana and took her hand in her own. “The bruises on your wrist are too small to have been caused by Mr. Hatcher.” She circled Dana’s wrist with her own hand. “Look, my hand fits these marks perfectly…you’re only a few inches taller than me, but our hands are about the same size, aren’t they, Dana?”
    Hayden walked over to