Flirting With Pete
A Novel
Prologue
Little Falls
The call came at three in the morning. Dan O'Keefe rushed into his uniform and drove out to the
Clyde house, not because Darden Clyde demanded it or because it was Dan's job, though both
were true, but because he was worried about Jenny.
He should have been used to worrying about Jenny. He had been doing it since signing on as his
father's deputy eight years before, when she had been a bruised sixteen-year-old who always kept a
distance from her peers and could never quite look you in the eye. He had worried when she was
eighteen, when her mother died and her father went to prison, and he had worried in the six years
since then, watching her become more and more of a pariah in town. He hadn't done much to help
her. So he felt guilt.
That guilt was compounded now. He didn't want Darden out of prison any more than Jenny did, but
he hadn't fought against it. So he felt guilty and he worried.
And then there was his shoulder. It always ached when bad things were in store. His father blamed
that on his being a lousy football player, but those o ... read full excerpt from Flirting with Pete: A Novel ebook
