Making love with Anita Malik came as a very pleasant surprise to Brodie. He hadn’t realised that they had become so close. He was aware he had started to really care for her, but had been totally blindsided by the fact that her feelings for him ran so deep.
He had discovered that morning that Sergeant Malik and Anita Malik were two totally different people. Sergeant Malik was professional, impersonal, even distant. She had obviously had to work hard against both sexism and racism among her peers and was immensely proud of what she had achieved professionally. The fact that her beauty had, if anything, strengthened resistance to her professional progress because so many male officers could not see past her sensuality.
Anita Malik, on the other hand, when she encountered the racism that ma
