Review: Protecting What's Theirs (Line of Duty #1.5) by Tessa Bailey

Title: Protecting What's Theirs
Series: Line of Duty #1.5
By: Tessa Bailey
My Copy: Amazon.com
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Possession is nine-tenths of the law. And she belongs to him.

Ginger Peet has never regretted leaving Nashville with her sister and their life-sized statue of Dolly Parton. Now she’s settled in Chicago with Lieutenant Derek Tyler, spending her nights pressed against every inch of his hard, dominating, and panty-meltingly-hot body.

And there’s nowhere Derek would rather be than reminding Ginger—thoroughly and exquisitely—that she belongs to him. But then trouble hits the streets of Chicago. The kind of bust the old-school boys call a "widow-maker." To keep Ginger safe, Derek’s forced to shut her out and keep himself away from her luscious body, or risk losing her forever.

But Ginger has just been presented with some, er, unexpected news. And right now, it’s best she keeps that news to herself. Because Derek stands to lose far more than he knows, until he takes the law—and Ginger—into his own hands one last time...

Such a short little snippet of what has happened in Derek and Ginger’s lives since I have last read about them made me realized how much I loved them in the first book and how much I love Tessa Bailey as an author. 

Derek is hot…end of that story and Ginger is so amazing.  However, they are far from perfect and that is what this quick novella is about.  Ginger finds out some news and keeps quiet because she believes that Derek is bored with her.  But Derek isn’t, he is just keeping her safe.   In this short story, I found myself on edge, wondering what was going to happen.  Was Ginger ever going to tell him? Is this really a relationship that was going to split?  The 48 pages in this book contained a lot of steaminess, drama, and love that filled it to the brim.