Dare You To Love Me (A NOLA Heart Novel Book 3) by Maria Luis

Author:Maria Luis [Luis, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Alkmini Books, LLC
Published: 2017-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

By the time Luke made it home, the sun had started to set and Julian Bryce was sitting on his front stoop.

“Shit.” He passed a twenty-dollar bill up to the cabbie and cranked open the back door, more or less throwing his body out of the car and onto the cracked sidewalk. Julian glanced up at the sound of the car door slamming shut and immediately jumped to his feet.

The kid looked so much like Anna, it was almost unreal. They both shared the same blond hair and the same blue eyes, and it hadn’t escaped Luke’s notice that they tended to tug on their earlobes when they were nervous.

“Hey Luke!” Julian called out, one hand cupped around his mouth. “I showed up a few minutes late. Thought you might have taken Sassy out . . . thought maybe you’d decided to fire me.”

Luke clapped the kid on the back as he passed him. “Your job’s safe. I was late coming out of physical therapy.”

The kid’s eyes dropped to Luke’s leg in a gaze as subtle as a stampeding rhinoceros. “How’s that going for you?”

Definitely not as good as he’d hoped it would be by now. Luke took the porch stairs one at a time, trying to hide a sliver of envy at the way Anna’s son bounded up all four in one fell swoop. “It’s going.”

“Yeah? No amputating then? We watched this video in science the other day about amputations. It was crazy. They talked all about this thing called phantom limbs, and one of the girls in the back of the class passed out.”

“What the hell are y’all watching in science?” Fiddling with the key, Luke shoved the correct one into the lock and let them in the front door. With a sharp whistle to alert the Dane that he’d arrived home, Sassy came hauling butt toward them, thin tail whipping back and forth as he prepared for a lick attack.

Julian’s hands immediately sank into the extra skin behind Sassy’s ears, bending low so that the dog could lick from his chin all the way up to his forehead. “It’s my teacher’s last year before he retires. I think he’ll let us watch pretty much anything. Last week we watched this video about a woman giving birth.”

Luke snapped his jaw shut and rubbed the back of his neck. “Did it just follow her from doctor’s appointment to doctor’s appointment?”

“Nope.” Sassy turned his snout to the ground and head-butted Julian—a move that made the kid laugh. “The camera was inside her. You know . . . up the chute?”

If this was the sort of conversation that Anna had to put up with daily, no wonder nothing fazed her. And here was Luke, wondering how the hell they could stop talking about a woman’s . . . chute. “Let’s not call it that,” he muttered, “too clinical.”

“It was a bit clinical,” Julian agreed readily enough. “Two people fainted that day.”

“Impressive.”

“That’s what I thought.” The kid slung an arm over Sassy’s back to pet his opposite side.

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