got married while I was at the hospital. I wanted to surprise you. It’s my wedding present to you.”
“How are you feeling? Should you be resting? My God, can I hurt the baby when we have sex?”
“First of all, I am feeling fine and I don’t need to rest this early in the pregnancy. Second, I have had a little morning sickness, but it hasn’t been that bad. And third, you cannot hurt the baby. Sex is good.”
“Sex is good—that’s it? Good? I kind of think it has been great myself.” He joked.
“Truth be told, it’s been phenomenal. Are you ready to christen the new house? I have heard that pregnancy makes a woman horny.” She said as she took his hand and led him downstairs.
CHAPTER TWO
“Brock, I am assigning you to be lead detective for a serial rapist case that has come across my desk.” Captain Lewiston stated. “Have you met detective Cavanaugh yet?”
“No, I haven’t. Is he new to the department?”
“She transferred from the five four.”
“She?”
“Oh—you were paying attention! Yes, she will be arriving at any moment. I will introduce you. Here are the files that we have on all of the rapes that have occurred in the past eighteen months. Here she comes now.” He said walking towards the door of his office.
“Cavanaugh, come on in here and let me introduce you to Detective McClellan. You will be working closely with him on a new case that has come across my desk.”
Brock looked up to see a tall, dark haired woman enter the room. His first impression was that she was a tomboy. She wore a t-shirt and jeans that had some wear to them and a leather jacket. Her hair was pulled up into a ponytail and she wore no makeup. Her dark brown eyes were piercing as she extended her hand to him. “Hello, my name is Holly Cavanaugh—you can just call me Cavanaugh.”
Brock shook her hand and said, “My name is Brock McClellan—you can call me Brock.” as he let it go.
“I prefer to call you Detective McClellan if you don’t mind—I don’t like to get too personal with my co-workers.”
“Well, now that the introductions are out of the way, I will let the two of you get started on going through the case file. You will have your work cut out for you.”
“Yes sir, Captain.” Brock stated.
Looking towards Cavanaugh, Brock said, “I will show you to my office and we can get started.”
Holly nodded and followed without saying a word. Brock silently made a mental note to himself that Holly was going to be a challenge to work with and an even bigger challenge to get naked. Whoa! Where did that thought come from? He was not in the least bit interested in anything but a working relationship with the “ice queen”. He shook his head and cringed at that thought.
“Did I miss something?” Holly asked.
“No, what are you talking about?”
“You just shook your head no.”
“Sorry, I just have a lot on my mind—my brother just got out of the hospital a week ago and I was thinking that I need to stop by his house. I haven’t had an opportunity to since he got out and I was making a mental note is all.”
Holly’s first impression of Brock was that he was ruggedly good looking and she needed to keep her distance from him because she wasn’t going to allow herself to fall for his kind ever again. She fell for good looking before and that didn’t end so well. The next time she got involved with someone, she was going to base it on personality, how he treated other people, and how he treated her cat. Charlie never did like her fiancé for some reason, so she was going to make a mental note of that. Her last relationship ended when she found out her fiancé was cheating on her with her best friend. She came home early one day to find them going at it in her bed. The worst part was that she wasn’t upset about it—she felt that it had been over for quite some time but never ended the relationship before because she thought that that was how relationships were. Hot and heavy