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His laas covered in crab grass and weeds He only paid the neighborhood kid to mow it once a month The rest of the time it was the chosen habitat of little woodland creatures The house needed a serious paint job, or at the very least a cleanup of all paint chips that had fallen to the ground over the years If he didn’t personally scare soave up the drea that he would move soon, very soon

Noas going after her babies This was not happening Enough was enough Over the last five years she bit her tongue, too afraid to complain She’d always been like that, even as a little kid

She was always the shy quiet girl with her nose buried in a book, hoping no one would notice her It wasn’t so much that she wasn’t a very social person, she was It had e chicken When the other kids picked on her or pushed her around she cowered, unable to deal with confrontation That nasty habit followed her into adulthood

It wasood lookspeople Throw good looks onto a guy that was being particularly jerkish and she turned into a blubbering idiot Pushy people just sucked and it really sucked that she never learned how to deal with them

When she caught her roo her papers, food, and money what did she do? She avoided her rooel would be asleep and then hurried the hell out of there before she woke up in theThe sae to have over the years took advantage of her

Instead of throwing them to the curb like she should have done she pulled back into herself, knowing they would get bored eventually and move on Yes, she was a chicken That was the only reason why Jason Bradford had gotten aith his behavior for the past five years No iven her the bulbs froht the house and she loved them

She spied the rolled up hose and made a snap decision This ended here and now The days of being the world’s biggest pushover were over

“What the hell!”

Jason jumped to his feet as a torrent of ice cold water hit him

He didn’t knohat he expected to see, but it certainly wasn’t his ti hose at him Clearly she’d lost her damned mind

“Step away from my tulips,” she ordered in a tone of authority

He really couldn’t help grinning at her She looked so da bronze hair pulled back into a twisted pony tail, green eyes full of fire hidden behind large glasses ht black tee shirt with the word “Nerd” written across her very decent size chest made her look rather hot His eyes dropped to the cute little shorts that revealed short, but very nice curvy tanned legs, very nice indeed