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"So what did you want to talk toyou reconsidered my offer and want to take the furry little terror off my hands" The puppy looked up froave rin at him "I’oing to give hio that I’d stood in front of hi him the puppy In reality it had only been a few days but that was tih for my heart to attach itself to the rambunctious and destructive puppy I would have toI could be a hero and not a victie
His lips twitched and I almost fell out of my seat when those twin dimples flashed atNow that I was close enough to hiht s to beThe dimples were too much, and the freckles were overkill It wasn’t fair A man shouldn’t be allowed to look both badass and adorable Hearts weren’t ht and there was no way a vagina stood a chance against that kind of appeal Speaking of which, I felt sohs clenched in response I hadn’t been aware oftiiven him a name yet" The dimples cut deeper when I scowled at hiht na to be stuck with it forever" I pouted a little as he laughed and shook his burnished head
"He’s a dog Call hi and then back up at me with a barely noticeable wince "I shouldn’t have let you leave the other day I wanted to take hiht now and I can’t even tell which way is up half the time" He lifted a hand and rubbed it across the back of his neck, which lifted the bottoht cut of his abs over the line of his jeans I wasn’t surprised that he was tattooed there as well, but I was a little shocked that he see a clearly defined six-pack He wasn’t built bulky and thick like a lot of the other guys that were now a regular part of my life thanks to Saleuessed that haulingtires around all day led to having the kind of body that would have a lot of woht
"I’ a dad I let that fear take overon more responsibility out of hand The truth is, ht now I’ to say to that but I couldn’t figure out what my response was supposed to be There was a ti and naive to all the ways a irl would knohat to say to hiue to keep fro "I think the puppya new dad"
Iskills on a puppy?" It wasn’t a horrible idea but it wasn’t the best one I’d ever heard either If I was in his shoes I would be hitting up all those buddies of his that ell on their way to populating Denver with the next generation of marked men and women Hell, his best friend from childhood had recently become a father to an adorable five-year-old, the results of an ill-thought-out one-night stand Zeb Fuller wasn’t any more prepared for fatherhood than Wheeler seemed to be and yet he’d landed on his feet and found hi the way
"No … well, kind of … I don’t know In my head it sounded more reasonable and less crazy than that What I do know is that I need so in my life to focus on besides the panic and resentood ho on the dangling end of one of Wheeler’s shoelaces, and sighed I didn’t want to give him up but the only reason he was here noas because of thein front of me
I’d spent et the I had Apparently it was a hard habit to break because even though I didn’t want to, I heard ly tell Wheeler, "Fine You can have hiet tired of him, or if you think he’s too much to handle and want ive you for that I’ll never forgiveyou You can’t do that to him" Or me, I told him silently The puppy plopped himself on his butt and looked up at both of us His head swiveled between the two of us as his tongue lolled out the side of his mouth I felt my heart squeeze in my chest and tears burned at the back ofto do I knew all about needing to find so that tethered you to reality Without it, the past and the possibility of a shattered present could fling you into a really ugly place that was hard to escape from At the moment I only had one hand out of that particular pit of despair and I was doing rip
He cocked his head to the side and considered ain and this tih He must have heard it because his lips lifted up and soaze seeet tired of hi to share custody of him I don’t knohat to do with a puppy any more than I knohat to do with a baby You’re an expert on the subject seeing as how you ith aniure you can helphad abandoned his shoelace and was now in the living roo for a place to go to the bathrooasped and flew out of e "Let’s be honest, there is no way I’ll be able to juggle a dog and a newborn Once Kallie and I figure out so when I have the baby"