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"I-I can’t do that," she said quietly, shooting another look over her shoulder at the dog

"Where did you get hiood size puppy into his ar and the little puppy licks he was giving his neck

"The shelter," she answered, twisting her hands together

"Good," he said, heading for the door

"Where are you going?" she de him out into the short hallway

"The shelter Where else?" he asked, heading down the stairs Anyone else and he would have told her to pack her shit up and move out, but this was his little tenant and he didn’t like the idea of tossing her out So the only choice of course was getting rid of the puppy, as currently tickling his neck with its whiskers

He heard her gasp behind hi around hiainst the door

"Watchfor the backdoor only to find his path once again cut off

"No, I’ up her hands to stop hi to keep him, but I couldn’t leave hithis dog, Zoe, so get the hell out of my way"

"No!"

"Zoe," he bit out between clenched "Move your little ass right now or I swear to god I will put you over my knee"

"Look, I knew I couldn’t keep hi to put hi to buy some time so I could find hi out to pet the dog almost as if she couldn’t stop herself

"Aw, hell," he said, dropping his head back and closing his eyes She just had to go and say that

"I knew you wouldn’t be happy and I did leave I really did, but halfway toand I just couldn’t leave hi close to tears "I’m really sorry, Trevor"

There was no way in hell he was opening his eyes and taking the chance of seeing her cry Crying from any other woman usually just irritated the shit out of hi da to do with the fact that Zoe was the only worand sches shouldn’t h he put the dog down and stood up, happy to see that Zoe wasn’t crying She looked a little nervous, but he could handle that better than tears

"I’ll help you find so," he started, only to have Zoe cut him off with an excited little squeal and sh he ot excited, but he pushed that observation from his mind and focused on the problem at hand

"I’ll help you find hi him, Zoe If we can’t find so back to the shelter," he warned her

Zoe wringed her hands together onceand then back up at hiave him a firm nod "He’s cute I don’t think we’ll have any proble hih

"Whoever wants hi his hand up to stop the argu to have the perfect home and he just wanted it out of his "That’s the deal Take it or leave it"

She pursed up her lips and arched her brows in that stubborn expression of hers and he waited for the argu and wanted to avoid It was late and he wanted to crash, but not before she read to hiht not happen