Page 26 of An Unexpected Home

“Mel and Logan are a thing?”

“No.” Carly glanced at her and shook her head. “Mel has a thing for him and has for years. He on the other hand thinks of her like a little sister.”

“Ouch,” Leah said and winced. “That’s gotta suck.”

“She does okay when he’s out of town, which is less and less these days. But when he’s here, she’s an emotional rollercoaster.”

Leah was starting to think it was an epidemic with the Graham boys. Her obsession with Brandon was new but she could see herself becoming like Melanie.

With one little exception. Brandon already said he wanted to date her. She was the one who was putting him off and torturing herself at the same time.

Carly’s phone beeped and she pulled it out to check it. “Huh, that’s interesting. It’s Brandon and he says he needs to talk to you.”

“Me?” She pointed to herself wondering what he could want.

“Yeah, he wants to know if you can stop by the station?”

“Now?” Oh God she looked horrible. Her hair was a mess, hence the hat she had on and she was wearing old jeans and a t-shirt because they had spent the morning pulling weeds outside the building.

“He said whenever, but why don’t you go now. I need to go to the hardware store anyway and then we can meet at the deli.”

Her face must have shown her fear because she added. “It’ll be fine, Leah. I don’t know what the deal is with you and Brandon, but he’s never been the type of guy to fuck with women.”

She relaxed. A little. “I’ll meet you at the deli in twenty minutes.”

“Deal.”

They parted and Leah wasted no time in getting to the police station. Katie was in her usual perch behind her desk.

“I’m here to see Bran – Chief Graham.”

“Keep calling him that, honey and you might find yourself in one of those cells back there.” Leah had no idea what that meant so she just ignored it. “He’s in his office. Go on back.”

She took her time, walking the corridor to his office and at his door took a deep breath before knocking.

“Come on in,” she heard and turned the knob to open the door.

His dark eyes spotted her and turned to quick-fire before calming just as fast. “Leah, come on in. Have a seat.”

She left the door open, unsure if he wanted it closed or not and took a seat in front of his desk.

“We had a break in the case at The Rinky Dinky.”

“Oh,” she said, not sure if she was happy or sad that this meeting wasn’t about them.

“Unbeknownst to me, my brother Logan has some cameras set up around town and one of them just happened to catch the person who broke the window.”

“That’s great news,” she said, wondering why he was telling her this.

“It is and it isn’t. While the picture never showed the perp's face, we did get a good look at his license plate. Do you know a William Huntington?”

“Will?” she asked, shocked.

“That’s who the car belongs to and when I checked into him...well, it seems he is nowhere to be found.”

“Why would Will be here, in Cedarville?” she said out loud. This didn't make any sense.

“I was hoping you could help me with that?”

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