Love Under Two Detectives Cara Covington (warren buffett book recommendations txt) š
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Weāll get through this one, too. Together, as a community. As a family.
Public reports arenāt making a big fuss over this outbreak in Asia, and that has me very confused. On the news media, they have mentioned itās in this country, but no one seems to be connecting the dots. I have enough contacts in the intelligence community in this country, as well as a few old friends who work with the World Health Organization, among other places. And I have paid attention for all the years of my life.
This outbreak is already an epidemic, and I worry. I worry because itās been just a bit more than a full century since the last major global pandemic. I didnāt witness that one myself, but my father told me about it. His own mother and his youngest sister died in that horrible Spanish Flu that infected a full one-third of the worldās population at the time. More than 50 million souls were lost to that horrid disease.
Unless we humans are all very careful, and very smart, this time, the death toll could be just as devastating. Yes, we have so many more modern advances to aid us. But this virus is also aided by the speed of this modern world.
Itās time for Lusty to circle the wagons. We will get through this. Thereāll be hell to pay if we donāt.
Chapter One
Saturday nightāthe first Saturday night in Februaryāand Mary Kendall found herself at the community center in Lusty Texas, attending the once-a-month Lusty community dance.
The band, Just Us, performed a cover of Tip of My Tongue by Kenny Chesney, and some of the familyāwell most of that part of the family she was sitting withāwere up dancing. Others just sat and chatted and watched.
Mary Kendall was doing her best to convince herself that those two smoking hot and far too attractive cops sitting just to her right and on the other side of the table didnāt exist. Or maybe, that their existence had nothing to do with her. Technically, they werenāt actually sitting at her table, but the next one, because the family had put several together to fit everyone. That fact should have made the situation easier, but it didnāt.
Instead she felt like a teenage girl getting a close-up peek at her secret heartthrob, times two.
No, no, no. No secret heart throbs. Just because she was now a resident of Lusty, Texas did not mean she was looking for lust in her life. That was not why sheād fled New York City for here.
Of course, the self-talk wasnāt doing any good at all. Anthony Corbettāblond haired, blue-eyed, with just the right amount of buff drew her secret attention. Not a Mr. Universe candidate, but she bet there was power in those yummy muscles of his. Yummy muscles? Mary blinked and turned her attention to his cop partner. Toby Kendall, with his dark good looks and that teasing devilās smile had pulled her in before she even fully knew what was happening.
Sheād tried to tell herself he was off limits because they shared a last name, but the truth was the DNA between them went back too many generations to mean a damn thing.
Look whose girly parts are waking up!
Thatās not my girly parts. Thatās gas.
No, self-talk really was not doing any good at all. Her good versus bad inner imps picked a hell of a time to lip off.
She used her focusāthat part of her that could close out the world when she wroteāand told her imps to stuff it.
Okay, so maybe she didnāt generally even notice a man in that way, let alone noticing two at the same time. Mary had so rarely been attracted to a man that sheād begun to wonder, a just in the back of her mind kind of wondering, if she was asexual. She tilted her head and looked at the beer she was slowly sipping. It couldnāt be the alcohol affecting her because this was her first beer. Maybe she should stick with water.
Mary reached for her water glass, then pulled her hand back.
āHey, has anyone everā¦ā
āHad the water tested?ā Tracy Alvarez Kendall, sitting beside her, grinned. āYes. We can now answer yes to the question that nearly every newcomer to Lusty has asked. Jason Benedictāone of Leesaās husbandsādid that very thing. And it came back clear.ā Then Tracy leaned closer. āSoā¦itās those two cops, isnāt it? Anthony and Toby. Hey, if Anthony called himself Tony instead of Anthony, they could bill themselves as T ān T.ā
Good grief, if they did that, Iād be a goner. Mary shook off that wholly inappropriate thought. And then her gaze landed on the two cops in question. At that exact moment they both looked over at her. Toby raised his bottle in salute, and the look on both menās faces let her know they were most definitely looking at her. Yeah, TNT all right.
Mary had let herself be talked into coming to this dance by Tracy and Ginny, two fun and funny women married to Kendall cousins. There was music and beer and food, and just a good time, theyād said. And while sheād never been a party person, she did like music and beer and food.
She liked her Kendall cousinsāespecially the female ones. In fact, they
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