The Logic of Love

By Dusty Miller

Love has its own logic. Sometimes that means no logic at all. After a few years on the job, Constable Laine Barrett is reminded that there are no routine traffic stops. A likeable loser, and not all that good looking, desperately tries to weasel his way under her skin. It’s not like anyone hasn’t tried that game before. Maybe it’s just a question of setting some limits. A romantic short story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dusty Miller
• Release date: Jan 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781927957066

Dusty Miller

Constance ‘Dusty’ Miller has written fiction, non-fiction and worked for newspapers and magazines. She did a brief stint as sports editor of a small-town weekly. She likes to make people laugh as well as think. Her erotica has a strong sense of the dramatic. Out of work and recovering from a life-threatening illness, someone suggested writing erotica which she initially rejected for lack of confidence. But love makes the world go around, and Dusty can no longer deny its pull. Dusty squeezes a little writing time in between raising a daughter and building a home-based business.

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The Logic of Love

Dusty Miller

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Table of Contents

Scene One

Scene Two

Scene Three

About the Author

The Logic of Love

Dusty Miller

Scene One

Twenty-six years old and still not married, according to her mother. Constable Laine Barrett left the station after shift change and briefing. Her first call was a minor roadside incident which turned out to be nothing much. Pickup in a shallow ditch. That was on Brittelsfield Road, and then dispatch wanted her somewhere else.

The next incident was just some old fellow who had pulled off to answer his cellular phone and got sucked in by the dense snow, plowed off to one side. He couldn’t get it going again. He was another one with no snow tires. He and the wife were very apologetic. She was legally blind or maybe she would have been able to answer while they kept going. They’d been meaning to get around to buying snow tires.

Two in a row.

She’d seen a few of them lately.

Dispatch advised her to hold up in a central location.

Proceeding north on Pontiac Road, a north-south gravel side-road with no houses for several kilometres