Chapter 40

"So I heard somebody was cutting a rug at The Mudcat last night with our Chief of Police." Shelby Abbott, Miranda's office manager, peered over her bright green cheaters, brows raised in expectation.

"This has nothing to do with our staff meeting," Miranda told her. The staff meeting she was beginning to wish she'd cancelled. After the late night, her ass was dragging.

"Girl, we are your staff, this is a meeting, and we want details," Keisha announced.

"There are no details. We danced. That was it. And then he had to leave to go take care of police business." She'd tossed and turned for quite a while once she'd gotten home, wondering if anything had happened with Harley. She'd wondered, too, if Ethan was going to follow through on his promise to ask her out or if that had just been flirtation of the moment.

"I heard up at The Grind that he couldn't take his eyes off you," Delaney teased.