Claiming Hannah [Bear Creek, Texas 2] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Lee Rose

Author:Lee Rose
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Published: 2013-10-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Hannah wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve. Despite the air conditioner being on she felt hot and her head was pounding. She was trying to give five wiggling puppies their vaccination shots but they refused to cooperate and stay still for her.

“This is for your own good, so you all won’t get sick,” she told them, but they didn’t look interested in that theory. She heard the bell ring on the front desk. Richard was at lunch and Amy was at school today so she was all alone.

“I’ll be right there!” she yelled, putting the shot down, and looked at the puppies. “You just got a break.”

She walked out to the front waiting room to see Dorothy standing there impatiently. Despite the hot and humid day, Dorothy managed to look cool in a slim-fitting white dress with her black hair styled perfectly. Hannah groaned inwardly, knowing her hair that started off in a ponytail was probably all messy now after struggling with the puppies and her lab coat was probably not as clean as it was this morning.

“What can I do for you, Dorothy?” she asked politely, stopping her hands from trying to fix her hair. “Here to adopt an animal?”

Dorothy frowned at Hannah as if she had lost her mind and looked around the room. “Animals smell and are messy. I am here to give you fair warning. Ben is mine. I have worked all year to get him and I had him where I wanted him until you came along and ruined it.”

Hannah sighed. Dealing with this woman was not something she wanted to do. “Listen, Dorothy. Ben is an adult capable of making his own decisions. If he wanted you then he wouldn’t be engaged to me.”

Dorothy gasped and her eyes narrowed in anger. She looked down at Hannah’s ringless finger. “He wouldn’t marry you unless…” she looked down at Hannah’s flat stomach and smirked. “God, that is the oldest trick in the book. Poor Ben, he must be feeling so trapped. I should go and comfort him. He must be feeling miserable.”

Hannah self-consciously closed her lab coat around her. She was trying hard to be polite but Dorothy was making it hard. “It’s none of your business, Dorothy, but Ben loves me, so why don’t you just move on with your life? Quit being so desperate.”

Dorothy leaned toward Hannah over the counter and glared at her angrily with eyes full of hatred. “Ben is mine! If you’re smart, you’ll stay out of my way. I don’t make a good enemy, so you need to remember that,” she yelled then stomped off, bumping into Richard on the way out the door without apologizing.

Richard looked at Dorothy and muttered, “How rude.”

He walked up to Hannah and saw her paleness and the way she just stood there in shock. “Everything okay, Hannah? You look pale. I heard the last part and that sounded like a threat to me.”

Hannah frowned. Ben would never see Dorothy as a threat or problem but Hannah knew Dorothy was the one who had her tires slashed.

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