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PC Adam Norman of Dumfries and Galloway Police cursed the town centre traffic as he sat at yet another red light, still a good few minutes away from the address in Summerhill he’d been given. He’d been thinking for a while about jacking the job in, but there were some aspects of it which appealed to him. One of them was sitting next to him in the passenger seat.
His colleague, PC Chloe Atkinson, was something of a closed book. She tended to keep her thoughts and opinions to herself, which made it a lot harder for Adam to know where he stood.
They’d been out for drinks a couple of times, Adam having wanted to ask her out on a proper date but instead settling for the easy option of suggesting a couple of after-work drinks at a pub in Maxwelltown. They’d been great evenings, but he’d co
