Bite Me (Woodland Creek) by Woodland Creek, Mandy Rosko Read Free Book Online Page A

probably more action than he’d seen in a long time. Did the Woodland Creek Police Department ever have to arrest anyone for anything other than drunk and disorderly on a Friday or Saturday night?
    Alice still thought it was weird sitting between two cops and Jake as she ate, but the food was insanely, stupidly delicious. She shut her eyes and actually moaned because of the flavors in her mouth.
    Jake stared hard down at his sandwich, as if he was trying to find out what was so interesting about it. Or just embarrassed for the noises she made. The female police officer actually chuckled. “Better than the fast food shit you got in the city, right?”
    Alice nodded eagerly. It was better than every fast food and greasy spoon she’d come across in all her travels.
    Screw the danger. She’d set up shop permanently in Woodland Creek if it meant getting food like this.
    Even though it was strange to be sitting among the police without being under arrest, as well as sitting with Jake, trying to get the mental image of him as both a thug and a cop out of her mind, she forgot about all of that quickly.
    The two police officers were nice, and the food was good, too.
    Maybe she should’ve turned herself into the cops a long time ago. That might’ve saved her one huge headache when it came to running for her life from Bobby, or the goons he sent after her.
    She was innocent now. Sort of. Alice was aware that just because she could no longer be arrested for her crimes, it didn’t mean she was suddenly an angel, but now that she was safe from that, why hadn’t she gone to the police?
    Too worried they wouldn’t care, or wouldn’t take her seriously, she supposed. That was it. Also…
    Alice glanced up at Jake, who was still staring down at his food while he ate it. He might’ve been ignoring her, but then again, he’d always been a little territorial around his food.
    Maybe part of her had been hoping he would be the one to come for her. She had to admit that it did feel a little something like fate to be here with him, in a police station of all places.
    What didn’t feel like fate was the way he’d brushed off what had happened between them.
    It wasn’t important.
    Those were his words. They’d slept together, quite a bit, back when he’d given off that sexy, tortured, bad-boy look.
    That had been the thing to draw her to him, despite her first impression of him being that he was a total asshole and no different than all the rest of the idiots she was forced to spend her time with.
    But he’d been the only guy to look a little bit sorry whenever he’d made a pass at her.
    It had been a running gag with the group. A joke. Let’s see who can bang the frigid blonde first.
    Alice had put up with a lot of hands pinching or slapping her ass, a couple of bad come-ons, and then the laughter that came after when she wasn’t in the mood to make up a good come back, or hadn’t been able to think of one.
    Of course, Jake had been undercover then, but she hadn’t known that. He’d probably felt he had to make disgusting comments to her just to fit in with the group, so he did.
    Then one day she just glared at him, and he’d immediately stopped laughing. He shut his mouth, his cheeks flaring, which, interestingly enough, made the other guys start laughing at him for being such a puss that he would actually blush.
    Yeah, that had been the first time Alice had suspected he wasn’t what he said he was. No other street thug would look so ashamed for making wise-ass jokes around the poker table.
    Alice only stole half of his winnings that night as punishment, and was even more interested when he didn’t call her out on it, or pick a fight with her or any of the other guys over the theft.
    The way he’d looked at her, it had been obvious he knew she’d been the thief.
    Which had soon led them to work a couple of jobs together under Bobby’s instruction as he tried to impress a local drug lord. Then he’d nearly eaten her, not