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“What’s going on?” Cass asked, her hair still loose and delicious around her shoulders

The sight of her in that passenger seat, where she’d so sweetly offered hi hi He couldn’t wait to dive in again

“Arwen In the car Now,” he ot a date with a shower and a o toa discussion about the proper place for a dog One sec”

Extra motivation must have done the trick because he manhandled Arwen into the back on the first try and shut the hatch before she could leap out, which he wouldn’t put past her She gave a mournful cry that he heard even with all of the doors closed

When he climbed into the driver’s seat, Arwen had already weaseled in between the front seats, paws on the gearshift She stuck her nose in Cass’s face, clearly bent on discovering all the secrets of the woman who had usurped her spot

Uh-oh Arwen had never deigned to check out a wonored thee always introduced her to someone off Arwen’s turf and it was rare that Arwen saw the sae couldn’t even remember the last time he’d had a woman in the Hummer, let alone at the same time as the vizsla

“She’s so sweet,” Cass exclaier head enthusiastically, earning a s

Gage eyed Arwen suspiciously and with no small amount of shock She never approved of anyone feled out as a rival “Yeah, that’s one word for her”

Arwen ht onto Cass’s lap before Gage could grab her collar or even warn Cass that forty pounds of dog was co her way

Great It wasn’t as if Cass earing a fifteen-hundred-dollar suit or anything—not that he’d shown much more care when he’d crumpled it up around her waist But still There was a place for Arwen and it wasn’t on top of Gage’sdate Former lover Current lover Partner in crime Whatever

“Sorry,” he threw out “Arwen, get in the back!”

“It’s okay” Cass shot his “I don’tin the front, I would iine”

“She is Doesn’t et her way” He started the car with one last warning glare at the dog as predictably ignoring him “I can drop her off at a pet hotel on the way”