By the end of her week, Hayley was starting to wonder if Officer Hathaway was ever going to come back or if she should find a new partner for Reed. She hadn’t caught sight of him the last few days, not even passing on the front steps, and she wondered if maybe he’d decided he wanted out of Blackjack, where the chances of getting a real crime to solve, well, something more real than breaking and entering or the occasional case of teenage vandalism, only came along once in a blue moon. Had he decided he wanted to go back where he could stay busier with harder criminals?
If their little town wasn’t good enough for him then they didn’t need him anyway. Hayley couldn’t stop the pang of regret that she’d never have a chance to find out if his hair was as soft as it looked. If his lips tasted as
