M.J. Rodgers - Baby By Chance

He had the passenger door open by the time she got there. She hopped in sideways and pulled the umbrella closed, dropping it to the floor once she was settled on the seat. The moment she’d closed the passenger door and buckled up, the truck was rolling.

“Are you always so punctual?” she asked as she looked over at him.

He wore a brown leather jacket over a silver-blue dress shirt, brown dress slacks, and leather boots polished so brightly she could see the chrome beneath the brake pedal reflected in them.

His eyes remained on the road when he answered. “Promptness is simply a part of keeping one’s word.”

“What do you say to all the people who accuse you of being too rigid because you live your life by the clock?”

“Probably the same thing you say to such people.”

She wasn’t surprised that David had surmised she also was a “promptness freak,” as so many of her friends liked to call her. Not after all the other things he’d been able to deduce about her.

“Okay, Mr. Detective, tell me what I say to those people.”

“You say you’ll be somewhere at a particular time, and you are there at that time, because you care about them and wouldn’t think of wasting their valuable time by making them wait for you.”

She chuckled. “Well, I may not have said that before, but I’m certainly going to say it from now on. Where are we going?”

“Someplace private where you can look at a picture and answer a few questions.”

The private place proved to be a parking facility located next to a nearby park. The heavy rain had driven away the park’s occupants, leaving the garage empty. David selected a space on the upper level with a view of the gray landscape but far enough within the structure’s overlapping roof that the rain wouldn’t pound on the truck.

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