How Did You Meet? by Tower Lowe
Office Delia Gonzales spotted a blue Toyota SUV in the ditch on Acequia Madre. Both passengers doors were wide open. A man about her age squatted by the rear wheel well. Muscles bulged in his thighs as he rose up and aimed a bottomless brown-eyed gaze at her body. Delia meant to be offended, but she got side-tracked by pheromones or the smell of pipe tobacco, she never knew which.
"My name is Ramon." He took too strides in her direction, put his hands on her waist and dented her skin with his fingers. Delia's right hand searched for her gun.
"I'm your cousin," Ramon said. "Don't you remember me?"
"No." Delia touched the cool steel of the police revolver. Ramon was close enough to breathe warm spearmint into her face.
"We played soldiers in the dirt out back of your house. You had a dog named Scruffy."
"I don't know you." Delia felt sweat drip between her breasts. "I never had a dog."
A line grew between his brows. "Then love me anyway, the way I love you."
His lips touched her cold mouth, her hand removed the gun from her holster and Officer Delia was seconds away from firing into Ramon's belly.
"Daddy. What are you doing?" It was a toddler in dark curls and a yellow jumpsuit.
Ramon backed off. Delia kept her gun pointed at him.
"Is that lady going to kill you, Daddy?"
Ramon opened both arms to grab the girl and lifted her into his arms, covering his belly and chest, making it impossible for Delia to fire without hitting the child.
"I want her to be your Mommy," Ramon said.
"Now?" the girl asked.
"No, not now. But in a little while."
Delia put away the gun.
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