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Because even though she had a sense that Zach probably lived to do things like wake people up out of a sound sleep at 5:30 in thethe real reason he’d called her was out of actual desperation

Hoping she wasn’t too late, she knocked on the door again, , "Shhh"

He looked like hell Still far too gorgeous for a mere mortal, but definitely not his best

No doubt, even she’d ht And from the looks of his half-shaven face, and the jeans pulled up over his hips, the real dao dohen he was in the shower

Okay, she firmly told herself as the muscles on his shirtless chest rippled in front of her, she could handle a nice set of abs Heck, she’d spent time with a professional athlete for a while, so it wasn’t like she hadn’t seen a good body before

Fortunately, Zach was so distraught by whatever Cuddles had done that he didn’t see she needed was for hi hi and ordered, "Don’t wake the puppy up"

Atlas’s ears flattened and Heather rolled her eyes Men were such babies Zach was acting like waking up Cuddles would break hi at every creak in the frame

Heather’s mouth fell open "Oh my God" She looked at Zach in shock, then back at his house "I can’t believe Cuddles could possibly have done all this by herself"

A muscle jumped in his clenched jaw "Believe it She’s the devil in a puppy disguise"

Nor that about a helpless, sweet puppy, but she was stunned by the destruction to Zach’s living room

The puppy had not only ripped open every pillow on his couch, she had also gone to town on what Heather guessed was a really expensive rug There were scratch marks up and down one side of the kitchen island and a half-dozen dark stain spots on the exposed parts of the hardwood floor

Even Atlas looked alarmed by the state of the apartment, as he stood beside her at the front door like a statue of a Great Dane

"Where is she?" Heather asked in the hushed voice Zach had wanted her to use earlier

He pointed to a pile of feathers beside the couch Heather had to look closely to see Cuddles curled up in the center of it, sleeping the sleep of the truly exhausted

"I’ to kill my brother," he said in a low voice that told her hethat way He was a bachelor who’d had a rambunctious puppy dumped on hi the best he could Unfortunately, it seemed he ay out of his element with this particular puppy