“You’d turn me in?”
“I don’t know, but I swore an oath. I could lose my job.”
“Do you love me, Calder? Really and truly love me?”
“Yes,” I answer her without a doubt in my mind.
“Then I trust you.” Climbing out of bed she goes over to the closet and tosses a duffle bag on the mattress.
Pinching the bridge of my nose I know that whatever is in this bag it is nothing good. “What’s in there?”
“Open it and then you do whatever it is you think you have to.”
“Maggie…I”
“Just open the bag,” she insists.
I don’t want to open this bag, but I will because it is important to her. I unzip it and turn it over, dumping the contents out. There’s three large stacks of money held together by rubber bands and a brick of drugs. “Jesus, Maggie. Is that what I think it is?”
Her head bobs up and down. “Yeah. Its cocaine. So you see, I have their money and some of their drugs.” She grimaces, and I fall back on the pillow unsure of what I am supposed to do now. “Are you mad?” I look up at her and she’s staring at me putting her future in my hands. She fidgets, twisting her fingers together and after all that she has told me, I love her even more because she trusts me enough to tell me her dirty secret and her ugly past.
I laugh. “Am I mad? Fuck. Yes, I’m mad, but I love you, and no I’m not turning you in. Just stuff that shit back in the bag and hide it somewhere other than your closet.”
“Okay.” She hurriedly stuffs the contraband back in the bag and kicks it under the bed.
“Someplace better than that but do it tomorrow. C’mere. I need to hold you.”
She falls onto the bed, and I pull her snug against me, loving that she fits perfectly against me like a missing puzzle piece. “Is there anything else you need to tell me?”
“I think Carly knows my name isn’t Maggie. There was a note in my door. It was addressed to June, and she was at the library today acting all weird. I was looking at a missing person’s report that was filed on me. I think she saw and plans on blackmailing me into leaving you.”
“You let me worry about Carly.” I don’t want to deal with her, but Carly can be impulsive, and I don’t want her doing anything stupid that could put Maggie in danger.
“I’m sorry,” she whispers.”
“For what?”
“For dragging you into my mess.”
“I’m glad I met you and would never change a thing about you.” Well, okay I’d change the fact that I am a sheriff’s deputy sleeping over stolen drugs and money right now, but I don’t say that. “What’s this about a missing person’s report?”
“I think my ex filed it in an attempt to find me because I have the drugs and money that he owes to the bad guys he was involved with.”
I breathe out heavily through my nose. “And you’ve told me everything?”
“Well. There is one more thing, but I know it’s going to hurt you.”
“Just tell me.”
“It’s Roger. When he gave me a ride home…he—he put his hand on my leg. I didn’t think much of it at first but then he tried to kiss me and said vulgar things about you and not being able to please a woman.”
Rage courses through my veins, and I am seething. I will deal with him tomorrow. “Anything else,” I grit through my teeth. “Have you told me everything now?”
“Yes, that’s everything.”
“Get some sleep, Maggie. We’ll figure it out tomorrow once I’ve had time to think on it.”
“Okay.” She buries herself deeper into the covers pressing her ass against my groin. Immediately I go hard, and I know I won’t be getting much sleep tonight. Rubbing my hand up her side I palm her breast, and pinch her nipple, rolling it between my fingertips. I slide my other hand between her thighs, teasing at her slick heat. “You drive me crazy.” I kiss her neck and along her jaw. Her legs spread, and her ass rubs over my erection. “Fuck, baby, I need inside you again.”