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Chapter Fourteen
THEO
She was a cop.
She was a motherfucking cop.
I pulled at my hair, pacing the length of the living room.
How the hell had I missed that? How the fuck did I not suspect it?
My pulse was racing, my heart beating a mile a minute as I tried to figure out what to do now. There was no way everything that had happened between us was a lie…right?
I barked out a laugh. Who the hell was I kidding? She’d come here to take me down, and now she had a guilty conscience. But what if she was still lying? What if she was banking on me still being here?
My head snapped left and right, taking stock of my apartment as the realization that I had to leave sunk in.
I had to leave everything behind, for now anyway.
The job was off, but so were me and Lena. She’d fooled me. She’d gotten behind the walls I’d erected a long time ago.
Never again. I’d never let anyone in for as long as I lived, not even the green eyed girl who had crushed everything with three little words: I’m a cop.
Epilogue
LENA
6 MONTHS LATER
Sitting at the back of the meeting room while the Chief reeled off the day’s assignments had become my new normal since I’d been back at work. I tried to ignore the stares and whispers that surrounded me because I was on a mission to find out just what the hell had happened while I’d been undercover.
Back then I hadn’t realized that it wasn’t normal to be no-contact to begin with. I should have had a handler, not just the Chief. I should have had way more support when I’d literally had none.
The entire operation didn’t sit right with me, not now that I knew the Chief had another agenda. I just couldn’t figure out what it was. It didn’t help that everyone was suspicious of me after Theo had called the job off and didn’t get caught in the act. It was clear they’d suspected that I’d told him, but they didn’t have any solid evidence, so here I was, back to being a cop, but feeling like the entire thing was a lie.
I kept my head down as my assignment was passed to me, then left the room and went to get my supplies for the day. Once I’d signed them out, I headed outside to my patrol car.
I hadn’t even been in it for more than ten minutes before a call came in. Telling the radio that I was responding, I clicked the lights on and pulled away from the curb outside the station.
I gripped the steering wheel tightly, the lights flashing on top of the patrol car as I weaved in and out of traffic to get to the emergency call. This was the only time I wished I had a partner sitting next to me. There was something reassuring about having a fellow member of the force at your back.
Unfortunately for me, no one wanted to be my partner, so here I was, working on my own, and answering all of the shitty calls and doing the late night shifts, just to make sure I proved myself yet again—it was worse than my rookie year, and that was saying something.
I ran a red light, hitting my horn several times to get cars to move out of the way, and sped around the corner and in front of the house where the call had been made from.
I didn’t hesitate as I jumped out of my car, unholstered my gun, then ran toward the open door. It was a break-in in progress according to the neighbor who had called it in.
“Police!” I shouted, warning them. I kept my back to the wall, swiveling my head back and forth as I sneaked down the hallway and into the first room. There was nothing there so I continued on toward the end, seeing cupboards on the back wall, a sure sign that I was about to enter the kitchen. “Police!” I shouted again.
When I didn’t hear anything, I jerked around the corner, my gun held in front of me. My heart raced as a figure at the table didn’t move. He was sitting there, his head down, a hood over it, obscuring his face.
“Hands in the air!” I took two steps toward him. “Now!”
Slowly, he lifted his hands, palms facing toward me, then looked up.
My heart skipped, my stomach dropping.
“Wh…” This couldn’t be real. I had to be seeing things.
