Title: Center Mass
Series: Code-11 KPD SWAT #1
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Luke Roberts came to the small lazy town of
Kilgore, Texas with one thing on his mind: Forgetting. He wanted to forget why he left. Forget those emerald green eyes that haunted
his dreams. And forget how it felt to
have his heart ripped out of his chest by a woman who didn’t like the fact that
he had a child. It was something he’d
been doing a damn fine job of doing, too.
Until Reese smashed through every one of his defenses, and made him feel
again.
Reese Doherty was just trying to do the
best for her little girl. So she moved
to the little boomtown nearly an hour from where she grew up to be the school
nurse for Kilgore’s littlest people.
That’s where she met him. The
SWAT officer and the man that would change her life forever. The sexy man who liked to drive fast, and
live life like it should be lived. He
drove her crazy, and became something she could barely live
without.
But Luke was a hero. A man used to risking his life to make the
world a safer place. Something Reese had
to decide whether she could handle or not.
Preferably before her and her daughter became too attached.
Just when she’s ready to give him her whole
heart, her world takes a huge hit, and everything she thought she knew wasn’t
as it seemed.
Luke wasn’t a quitter, though. Damn far from it, and he’d prove to her that
he’d be there when the dust settled.
Whether she wanted him to be or not.
The next
day I found myself at the movie theater with a room full of screaming children
excited to see the newest Disney movie.
I wasn’t a fan of animated
movies.
I also
wasn’t a fan of theaters.
But I’d
do just about anything for my daughter, even sit in a theater with kids who
wouldn’t shut the fuck up.
Didn’t
these parents know how to tell their kids to be quiet?
Surely they wouldn’t let them do
that throughout the entire movie…right?
But when
thirty minutes went by and the couple in front of us continued to let their
kids fight and run around the entire fucking theater, I was about out of
tolerance.
I hadn’t
realized that anybody could be so rude.
I’d just
about made my mind up to say something when a big man, two rows in front of us,
stood and walked down the aisle.
He
walked calmly up the main row; I thought that he was just going to the
restroom, but he stopped on the row that the parents were busy playing on their
phones.
Sounds
and all.
“’Scuse me,” a familiar voice
rumbled.
The
cop.
What was
his name? Luke?
Yeah,
that was it. Luke Roberts.
He had
to be seeing the movie with his daughter, because why the hell else would a man
like him be watching a Disney movie?
“Sir,
ma’am. I’m going to have to ask you to make your children behave, or
I’ll have to ask you to leave,” Luke said softly.
I wanted
to stand up and applaud. Would that be rude?
Rowen
didn’t even notice, being on the other side of me. She was enraptured
with the fat blobby robot on the screen, not bothered in the least by the kids,
nor the man.
Turning
my face away from my child, I watched as the asshole father stood up, bowing up
his chest.
The man
was big, I’ll give him that. But he wasn’t the same caliber as
Luke.
The two
were like night and day.
Where
Luke was fit, the man was large. Where Luke was intimidating and
authoritative, the man came off as a jerk who used his size to get his
way.
A
particularly bright part in the movie lit the theater, showing me Luke’s
amusement at the man’s show of attempted intimidation.
When the
man got up and got face to face with Luke, I turned in my seat more fully to
get the full effect, tossing a piece of popcorn into my mouth in
excitement.
Now this
was what I was talking about. I was an action kind of girl.
I didn’t like movies where there was nothing exploding and no shirtless
guys.
Now the
scene in front of me I knew wasn’t going to escalate much past raised voices,
but it was better than nothing.
“Listen
here, boy. I’ll have you know that I paid for my tickets just like the rest of
these folks. I want to sit here and enjoy the movie,” the man
yelled.
“You
want to enjoy the movie? How about you tell those,” he pointed to the
kids. “To sit down.”
The
man’s two fighting kids slipped in between the seat and Luke’s
legs.
Then
Luke lost his patience. “Sit.”
They
followed direction instantly, sitting down and staring at the movie with
quivering chins.
It was
as if that was the first time they’d ever heard a reprimand before; although,
it probably was.
The
mother stood in outrage, but Luke’s glare had her quickly sitting
down.
Which
caused me to snicker, making Luke’s eyes turn toward me.
His
glare showed me he wasn’t as amused as I was, but he winked at me, eyes
flicking down to Rowen before he turned back to the man in front of
him.
Who was
absolutely livid.
“I’m
going to call the cops on you,” the man snarled.
Luke’s
lips tilted up into a slow grin. “Go on, make my
day.”
I’m
a married
mother of three. My kids are all under 5,
so I can assure you that they are a
handful. I’ve been with my paramedic
husband now for ten years, and we’ve produced
three offspring that are nothing like us. I
live in the greatest state in the
world,
Texas.
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