“Look at it. I already put a lot of cream in it.”
She looked down at the off-white coffee in the cup and could tell it was mostly cream.
“Sorry. The coffee is always bad here.”
“Who makes it?”
“Everyone.”
“I could write down directions, and you could tape it over the machine. This stuff can’t be healthy for you if you drink it all the time.”
“You’re so darn sweet.”
Her eyebrows rose. “Just because I don’t want you to die?”
He grinned and shook his head. “I’ll be around. So if you need me, push one on the phone, and the desk will find me. And try to rest.”
“Okay.”
He got to the door.
“Hey, David. After I’m questioned, am I going to be able to get my car out of impound?”
He pinched the bridge of his nose. “For the last time, you’re not under arrest, you’re not a perp, and your car is in the parking lot.”
She looked at him skeptically. “But you said…”
He snorted. “Try to rest if you can. I’ll check in with you.”
She nodded and watched him leave. Then she sipped her cup as she paced the room. Her muscles got tighter, and her stress rose with every minute that passed.
David brought her a sandwich an hour later but then left her again. She looked at the meal every once in a while but couldn’t get herself to take a bite. Her stomach was in one big knot.
Nia kept telling herself that she would be okay. They’d get everything cleared up, and she could go on her way. She just hoped it was soon before she broke apart from the exhaustion and anxiety.
Chapter Four
Travis stood and looked through the one-way glass at the young woman he’d come to get.
Her eyes were a light tone, but he couldn’t determine the actual color through the one-way mirror. She was small, and although her jeans weren’t tight, they showed she had some womanly curves, something to grab on to. Something most men liked. He suspected her breasts were about medium size, but it was hard to tell with the baggy t-shirt she was wearing.
It was her blonde hair that struck him first. It was striking. It was long and fell to the middle of her back. It looked thick and soft, and he imagined wrapping it around his hand to guide her when she sucked him. Fuck. He didn’t need to be thinking along those lines. They didn’t even know each other. The hair and her full lips were something men dreamed about.
The shade of her hair was unlike any he’d ever seen. From what he could see, it was a very light blonde with almost a gray shimmer to it. He thought she had dyed it at first, but her eyebrows were the same color, just in a slightly darker shade.
His palms itched to touch her.
She paced like a caged tiger, and he could tell she was getting more wound up by the minute.
“She’s one of the sweetest things I’ve ever seen. She tries to hiss like a cat, but it comes out sounding like a kitten.”
Travis glanced at David, the deputy who was in charge of her. Well, until right then. Now she was his responsibility.
“Are you sure she can’t stay?” David asked wistfully.
Travis grinned. “No, I’m sorry.”
Travis didn’t give any other explanation. When Kaleb had called and asked him for a favor of finding Aleena’s friend, he hadn’t been happy. He was busy running a security firm in Jacksonville, but he owned the man since he sent a lot of work his way.