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An Ellora’s Cave Romantica Publication

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9 ½ Years

ISBN 9781419915444

Edited by Shannon Combs.

Photography and cover art by Les Byerley.

Electronic book Publication May 2008

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is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously.

9 ½ Y EARS

Cheryl Dragon

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The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the

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9 ½ Years

Chapter One

“Sit down and shut up.” Lt. Lisa Zimmer had had the morning from hell. But

getting the bad guy made it all worth it. At least that’s what she told herself on those

kinds of days. Her jeans were smeared with dirt, shoes scuffed and it was barely two

p.m.

The man under arrest, Larry Edens, was legally drunk and had been caught in the

act of domestic violence. Lisa loved when it was open and shut. Very few cases in the

Crimes Against Youth and Family Bureau of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department

fell into that category. The detective in her loved the challenge but some days it got to

her.

“Where is my wife?” Larry wrestled with the cuffs behind his back.

He shuffled in the chair next to her desk as Lisa searched for forms. It always

happened—she ran out of forms with a high maintenance criminal. “Your wife and kids

are with a counselor. I’m pretty sure there will be a restraining order.”

Larry leaned forward. “You can’t keep them from me.”

“If the judge says we can—we can.” She didn’t mind stirring up the drunk ones.

They’d find something to get upset about no matter what. And probably wouldn’t even

remember it later.

“It’s nothing serious. A fight. Private family stuff.” It was the mantra of every

abuser.

“Old lady nagging you, huh?” Detective Baker was nearing sixty and lived to

antagonize suspects. He’d been old when Lisa started, now she was closing in on forty

and felt at home with him in the squad room teasing suspects—and her. It was part of

the old boys’ network that came with being a cop.

“Some women deserve to get hit.” Larry eyed her.

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