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Toby let out a little whih she looked over to find Toby pouting with hison Mr Cuddle’s stomach "Not you, buddy None of this is your fault," she said, reaching over to give him a little scratch behind his ears

"Oh that’s good to know," Trevor drawled fro hell out of her

"This isn’t what it looks like!" Zoe asped for air and tried to hide the large puppy on her bed by stepping in front of it

"It’s not?" he asked in a bored tone and nearly rolled his eyes when she tried to discretely toss a throw blanket over the poor dog

"No?"

She was such a horrible little liar, he thought, but appreciated it all the more since itover his head

He leaned back against the door frame, crossed his arms over his chest and nodded towards the bed "Then what’s that?"

"A blanket?"

"Uh huh, did you know that your blanket is an playfully wrestling with the blanket

Zoe nibbled on her botto his attention He had to admit that he liked her lips A cute little top with just the right amount of curve and a pouty little bottom lip that made him wonder if they were as soft as they looked

Holy hell he needed to get laid if he was checking her out, which he was It was happening htening him since she was in no way his type If he didn’t think lack of sex was responsible he’d be worried about all those late night fantasies he’d been having about her

"The house is infested?" she said, sounding like a question again He idly wondered if she realized she was doing it

"I see," hearound the obscenely clean and tidy bedroom There wasn’t a dust ball to be found, a cru out of place reat work even if she was a horrible little liar

"So, that thing on your bed beneath the blanket is," he prolance over her shoulder "A huge rat?"

"Then why didn’t you tell h at the expression of pure panic on her face while she tried to come up with a suitable lie

"I didn’t want to scare you?"

"That was really nice of you," he said, pushing away from the door He walked over to the bed and reached past her to tug the blanket off the playful pup "Oh, look at that It see his ar a brow as he silently dared to her to try and bullshit her way out of this one

He watched as her mouth worked soundlessly for a moment before she worried her bottoed with defeat "We’re not infested," sheher ju one bit as all the hunored one of his rules, one of the rules he’d like to point out that she agreed to, but then lied about it and tried to hide it from him

"I’ood enough, Zoe You signed a rental agreeot one anyway"

"I know," she said unhappily

"Good Then you can bring it right back to where you found it," he told her