Leashed (Going to the Dogs) by Dawson Zoe

Author:Dawson, Zoe [Dawson, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Blue Moon Creative, LLC
Published: 2012-09-28T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

You’re going to have to sleep with him.

Harper’s proclamation was still reverberating in her head as she returned from another dismal date. The cute doctor only wanted to talk about all the interesting surgeries he’d preformed in great and vivid detail. The jerk asked nothing about her job and nothing about her.

Letting herself into the loft, she responded to Jack’s greeting and then threw herself down on the sofa. With his usual uncanny ability to sense when she was down, he gently placed his head in her lap and gazed at her soulfully.

“It’s okay, Jack. Things will get better.”

Except that she hadn’t been able to find her Judith Leiber cream clutch. The last time she had used it was on her previous snooze date. She’d set it on the foyer table. But when she went looking for it to use on this date, it wasn’t there. She decided she must have put it back in her closet. She would have to search.

A knock on the door startled her. She looked at her watch. It was close to eleven. She called out as she got off the sofa. “Who is it?”

“It’s me, Owen.”

Her pulse jumped, but she tried to ignore it, and the way her heartbeat skittered.

When she opened the door, he looked worried.

“What’s wrong?”

“Jill. I think she’s sick.”

Callie had opened the door too wide, and before she could stop him, Jack slipped out and made a beeline for Owen’s loft and the open door.

“Jack!”

Callie took off after him when he didn’t heed her call. Inside Jill was dancing around him.

“Oh. She looks fine now. But she’s been off her food, and she was really lethargic today. I thought she was sick.”

“Well it looks like the big hussy just needed a shot of Jack.”

Owen chuckled. “Looks that way. I’m sorry to get you out of your apartment so late. You look nice.”

She blushed and smoothed her hands down the black scuba dress she wore. She liked the mix of sporty and chic. She would have thought as a grown woman she’d be over it, but, no. She actually blushed.

“I was…ah…on a date.”

“Really?” he asked. He frowned, held her gaze for a few more seconds, then looked away, his fist clenching. “Did you have a good time?”

“Poe set me up with one of the doctors at the vet hospital.”

He nodded. “A doctor. That’s great.”

His tone of voice conveyed how not great he thought it was. She wasn’t going to confirm for him that it hadn’t been great at all. That all she’d done the whole evening was compare the poor man to Owen. It was best to let Owen think she was involved, because, dammit, he was just as enticing now as he had ever been.

“I should get Jack and let you get some sleep.”

“I’m somewhat of a night owl. I don’t open up the club until about six.”

“Oh. I see. I don’t open up until ten, so that gives me some leeway in the morning. It’s nice. Well, I should go anyway.

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