The Perfect Show (A JESSIE HUNT #33) by Blake Pierce EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Blake Pierce
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Jessie Hunt added a hint of soy sauce to the pan, then mixed it in with
the slowly caramelizing Brussels sprouts. The smell made her mouth water.
At the butcher block behind her, her husband Ryan was cutting pieces of
chicken thighs into cubes that would be added to the pan momentarily. She
silently admired his muscular forearms, flexing as they cut. Then, she
allowed herself to admire the rest of him.
She lingered on his square jaw and the firm, two-hundred pound, six-foot
tall body that strained at his dress shirt before taking special notice of the
features that had first attracted her to him—his warm brown eyes, shy grin,
and adorable dimples.
Just off to the side of him, the red onions and mushrooms were waiting
in separate bowls, ready to be included when the time was right. Neither of
them were cooks on the level of her younger half-sister, but considering that
Hannah wasn’t here tonight, they were doing the best they could. Jessie
might even allow herself a glass of wine if they were truly satisfied with the
results.
She reminded herself not to get too comfortable. Just because it was
approaching 6 p.m. on a Thursday evening and Christmas was only three
days off, that didn’t mean that she and Ryan couldn’t get a call at any
minute. Considering that Ryan was the detective in charge of LAPD’s
Homicide Special Section, or HSS, and that Jessie was the unit’s criminal
profiler, it was entirely possible that their dinner could be interrupted. In
fact, considering that HSS specialized in cases with high profiles or intense
media scrutiny—typically involving multiple victims or serial killers, it was
more likely than not to happen.
Nonetheless, Jessie hoped that they wouldn’t get a call tonight. They
needed a quiet evening together. So much had happened in the eight months
since they’d gotten married that it often felt like they hadn’t gotten a chance
to catch their breath.
There were the huge events, like Jessie having brain surgery after
swelling caused by multiple case-related concussions. In addition, Hannah
—as well as Jessie’s best friend, Kat Gentry—had nearly been killed by a
professional assassin hired to snuff out the lives of those closest to Jessie.
And to top it all off, a vengeful serial killer named Mark Haddonfield had
tried to murder her as “punishment” for not taking him under her wing as a
profiler-in-training.
As Jessie stirred the contents of the pan, she almost laughed to herself at
the absurdity of it. After all, that was just the big stuff. It didn’t include the
fact that Hannah, for whom Jessie had served as guardian the last two years,
was now in her freshman year at UC Irvine, which was fifty miles and a
world away.
And it didn’t include the ongoing couples therapy that Jessie
and Ryan were going through to deal with her residual trust issues after
Ryan had held back details about a case in order to protect her. His decision
had ultimately put Hannah and Kat in the cross-hairs of that assassin, a
woman named Ash Pierce.
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