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“Yes, I’m sure you do, but being on camera is different from rehearsing in front of your mirror.”
“Do you honestly think I rehearse anything in front of my mirror?”
“You? Probably not. Why don’t you get there a couple minutes early, so we can do a test run?”
“Fine.” He continued his trek to the front door. She followed behind, admiring his confident stride and the way his pants hugged his ass. He stopped as he pulled the door open. His large build filled the doorframe, blocking her view of the outside. “Lock the door behind me and reset your alarm. You can never be too careful.”
“Goodbye, Reid.”
She watched him walk away. She couldn’t help herself. The man filled out a uniform rather nicely. When he got in his cruiser, she gave a wave, then closed the door, locked it, and reset her alarm. Better safe than sorry, after all.
Chapter 5
Swirls of orange and blue painted the sky as the sun began its ascent. Reid arrived twenty minutes early to meet Allison. He didn’t sleep much and figured he could grab a coffee at the Local Bean before making his stupid statement to appease the mayor.
Cami flipped the closed sign to open just as Reid approached. Her head tilted and a curious eyebrow arched as he stepped inside. The smell of coffee permeated the air, and he inhaled as if the scent would give him a jolt of caffeine that he definitely needed to get through the next hour.
“You’re here early,” Cami said.
“I have an interview with Miss Winters at six.”
Cami nodded. “I’ll make it a double then.”
“That would be great. Thanks.”
She moved with ease behind the counter, grabbing the necessary items to make his usual coffee. When finished, she slid it across the wood grain, and he handed over a five. She rang him up, and when she went to give him his change, he waved it off.
She dropped it into the tip jar he knew she didn’t keep for herself but gave to her younger employees who needed it for college. “Good luck today.”
“Thanks, I’m going to need it.”
He tipped his hat and headed onto the boardwalk, absorbing the serenity of the early morning hours before the boardwalk came to life with people, and the only noise was the crashing of waves and the seagulls overhead. He sat on a bench, kicked his foot onto his knee, and closed his eyes, taking a second to relax.
“Good, you’re early!” Allison’s voice broke through his quiet moment.
He popped one eye open and watched as she click-clacked her way across the boardwalk in shoes that belonged on a runway and not on the planks of wood she could easily catch her heel on. Her toned legs poked out of a purple knee-length dress that hugged her perfect curves, and her black hair fell in waves over her shoulders. She looked good, like always.
She held a tumbler in her hand and took a sip as she came to a stop in front of him.
“Is that a Bruins tumbler?” he asked, noticing the distinct logo.
“It sure is.”
“You like hockey?”
“Love it, actually. If you had social media, you’d know I never miss a game.”
He did not peg Allison Winters in her too high heels as a hockey fan. Definitely not a fan of his favorite team.
“Me neither,” he admitted.
She held the hand up that didn’t have the tumbler out at him. “Wait. Are you saying we have something in common?” That same hand slapped against her chest. “I can’t believe it.”
“Okay, you can take the sarcasm down a notch. It’s too early.” Even if he found her sarcasm oddly attractive.
“Is someone not a morning person?”
“I’ve been up since four.”
