Knock Me for a Loop by Heidi Betts

Author:Heidi Betts [Betts, Heidi]
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781429956390
Publisher: St. Martins Paperbacks
Published: 2010-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

Row 12

She should have known.

Things had been going so well. They’d been getting along. He’d even offered to put himself out and fake a resurrected relationship in order for her to accept the Insides Out deal, which she’d taken as not only a good sign, but a very kind repayment of how she’d put herself out to move in and take care of him.

But, of course, it couldn’t last. She should have known Zack would find some way to fuck it up.

He was probably ready to ask something truly vile of her, too. Some sick, perverse sexual favor. And he was going to dangle the I.O.U. photo shoot over her head like a thick, juicy carrot until she agreed.

Any modicum of appreciation, or even enjoyment, she’d found herself having by being in his company again vanished, and she straightened, crossing her arms beneath her breasts, regarding him with a stern, even hostile gaze.

“And what might that be?” she asked. As though she didn’t already have a pretty freaking good idea.

“I want you to start calling ‘Muffin’ “—he used two fingers of each hand to make air quotes sarcastic enough to match his tone—“Bruiser again.”

She blinked, wondering if she’d heard him correctly.

“That’s it? You just want me to start using the name Bruiser instead of Muffin for your”—oops—”my”—still not quite right—“our”—grr, what was wrong with her today?—“dog?”

No requests for naked table dancing? No favors that involved knee pads, lockjaw, or positions that only streetwalkers and contortionists were usually willing to perform?

“He’s a boy dog,” Zack explained, as though she didn’t know that and hadn’t been the one to drag the massive Saint Bernard to the veterinarian to have his nads chopped off. “He should have a boy name.”

“Muffin isn’t a boy’s name, huh?” she asked with a slight curl to her upper lip.

She was still having trouble wrapping her mind around the fact that this was the only thing he wanted when he could have asked for so much more. Was he being sincere, or simply biding his time, softening her up for some bigger, more squirm-worthy proposition later on?

Zack frowned, his light blond brows dipping down. “Definitely not.”

“But what about all the adorable accessories I’ve bought for him that already say Muffin?” she asked, fighting the smile that tugged at the corners of her mouth. It was cruel to tease him this way, but she couldn’t seem to help herself.

She could almost hear his teeth grinding together before he said, “I’ll pay you back. And buy new.”

“But if you buy him all new stuff, it will be in Rockets red or blue, or some other ugly, manly colors.”

“I don’t know what’s so wrong with manly colors,” he grumbled, turning his head down and to the side for a brief second. Then he raised his gaze to hers once again and grated out, “You know how much I hate that frilly, girly shit you put on him. You painted his nails red, white, and pink for Valentine’s Day, for Christ’s sake.

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