Broken Toy [Suncoast Society] (Siren Publishing Sensations)

Suncoast Society

Broken Toy

Gabriella "Gabe" Villalobos survived a lonely, abusive childhood to become a dedicated cop who rescues children. Work is Gabe’s life. Which is why when she slugs a suspect, her boss orders her to leave town for three weeks of vacation she doesn’t want. When she stumbles into the Suncoast Society munch, she certainly doesn’t expect to meet a guy who makes her want more.

Det. William "Bill" Thomas is a widower who’s decided to fish in the BDSM dating pond after years of failed attempts. When he meets "Ella" at his first munch, he suspects she’s hiding a secret but doesn’t know exactly what.

Being assigned to a joint task force together forces Gabe and Bill to admit their true identities to each other and confront their feelings. Gabe has spent her entire life proving herself through her work, but Bill wants to show her what love and happiness feels like and convince her that she’s anything but a broken toy.

Genre:
BDSM, Contemporary

Length:
80,298 words

Suncoast Society

Tymber Dalton

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BROKEN TOY

Copyright © 2014 by Tymber Dalton

E-book ISBN:
978-1-62741-400-5

First E-book Publication: February 2014

Cover design by Harris Channing

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For Sir, who keeps insisting I’m not a broken toy. Thank You for putting up with me.

While the books in the Suncoast Society series are stand-alone works that may be read independently of each other, the recommended reading order to avoid spoilers is as follows:

1.
Safe Harbor

2.
Cardinal’s Rule

3.
Domme by Default

4.
The Reluctant Dom

5.
The Denim Dom

6.
Pinch Me

7.
Broken Toy

Many of the minor characters who appear in this book also make appearances in—or are featured in—other books in the Suncoast Society series. All titles are available from Siren-BookStrand.

Suncoast Society

TYMBER DALTON

Copyright © 2014

Chapter One

“So that must be a really cool job, huh? You know, I
totally
love watching
CSI
. That is
such
a great show.”

Oh, my god. Kill. Me. Now.

Detective William Thomas forced a smile as his date, Cassie, took a sip of her Diet Coke, her dramatically overdone smoky eyes intently staring at him from across the table. “It’s not like it is on TV at all, believe me,” he assured her.

“Yeah, you don’t have commercials in real life.”

He’d started to laugh when he realized with dawning horror that she was totally serious.

Like, totally.

Thank god we didn’t go to Marelli’s. I’d be embarrassed to death right now.
“Uh, yeah.”

Scratch killing myself, I’m going to fucking kill Al for letting Sue set me up.

Normally, he wasn’t a fan of blind dates. As in he didn’t go on them.

At all.

Detective Albert Ogilvy, friend—
former
friend if this date dragged on too much longer—and coworker, had managed to catch him at a weak moment. It’d been two years since his last date, five years since the last second date he’d had with someone…

And nine years since Ella died.

By the time he walked Cassie out to her car an hour later, he’d tried to adopt a Zen attitude about it. It wasn’t like he had to endure a second date with her, much less spend the rest of his life with the woman. He’d gotten out of the house for the evening, which had kept his mind occupied.

And now I’ll have something to freaking guilt-trip Al over.

Totally.

* * * *

The next morning, Al’s smile lasted from when he walked into the conference room until he got a look at Bill’s face.

“Uh-oh.”

Bill just glared.

“Um, I was going to ask you how your date went last night, but I can tell you’re not wanting to talk about it.”

Bill sat back and tossed his pen onto the conference table. He pretended to twirl his hair. “Wrong. I sooo
totally
want to talk about it. Um, I so totally think what you cops do is sooo cool. I mean,
CSI
and everything. Ohmagurd.”

Al froze before letting out a snort. “Wow. That bad?”

Bill glared in reply.

His face fell. “Man, I’m so sorry. I owe you. Sue was driving me crazy to ask you to go out with that woman.”

“What the
hell
, dude? I thought we were friends.”

Al sat next to him. Their morning briefing would start in a few minutes. They could see through the windows overlooking the hallway that other detectives and officers were already making their way to the conference room.

“She’s Sue’s best friend’s niece or something,” Al explained. “I’d never met her before, I swear, or I wouldn’t have agreed to it.”

“Yeah, well, tell Sue thanks but no thanks if she comes up with any other dates for me,” he muttered, his voice dropping off as two other detectives walked into the conference room.

“Ten-four,” Al muttered back.

Hell, he was only forty-six. It wasn’t like he was in danger of dying alone as a crazy old man with twenty cats or something.

He hadn’t even adopted a cat.

Yet.

Although the last time he was in the neighborhood of the Humane Society over in Englewood, he had given serious thought to stopping by, just to take a look.

* * * *

Al stopped by Bill’s desk at lunchtime. “Want to go grab a bite to eat, or are you still pissed off at me?”

Bill’s first inclination was to say no, except he wanted to get out of the office and the only other option was a bag of chips out of the vending machine, or walking across the street for fast food at the Golden Arches.

Again.

Bill logged out of his computer. “I’m still pissed at you, so you’re buying.”

“Deal.”

“And driving.”

“Deal. Again.”

“And that still doesn’t get you off the hook.”

“Roger that.”

They drove a couple of miles south down US 41, to a small Greek restaurant they both liked. “Will this do?” Al asked.

“It’s a start.”

“You’re going to bust my balls over this forever, aren’t you?”

Bill grinned. “What do you think?”