Liam Takes Manhattan by Thea Harrison

Author:Thea Harrison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance, vacation, dragon, pia, cuelebre, elder races, dragos, dracos, wyr
ISBN: 9780990666189
Publisher: NLA Digital LLC
Published: 2015-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

When exhaustion set in, it was sudden and fierce. Liam went to bed early and slept in late. The only reason he woke up at all was because Pia knocked on his door and then walked into his room.

“Get up, sleepyhead!” she said.

“Mmph,” he grunted, and pulled his pillow over his head.

She dragged the bedcovers off his body. “I mean it—get up!”

“Mooooom, it’s too early,” he complained. “You sound disgustingly cheerful, and I don’t need those covers anyway.”

“It’s not early—it’s almost ten o’clock, Liam. Here, I brought you a cup of coffee.”

He could smell the coffee from underneath his pillow, dark, rich and alluring. “Get thee behind me, Satan,” he said experimentally.

She burst out laughing. “Where on earth did you hear that?”

“Some woman muttered it yesterday when she was looking at the pastries at Starbucks.” Light fingers tickled his bare feet, and he jackknifed to a sitting position. “Hey! You cheated!”

“There’s your beautiful face,” she said cheerfully. She had set the coffee mug on his bedside table. “If you get up and shower right now, you’ll have enough time to eat breakfast before we go to the West River Animal Shelter to meet with the executive director, Eileen Riley.”

“What?” He stared at her then grabbed up the coffee cup. “But it’s Christmas Eve!”

She opened her eyes wide. “I know, right? I emailed them a basic inquiry yesterday afternoon, but I wasn’t expecting to hear back from them until after the holidays. Eileen just called me, and she would love to talk. Apparently they’re having some serious financial difficulties, and she’s willing to consider almost anything to keep the doors open. She said my email was the Christmas miracle they’d been hoping for.” Pia paused and tilted her head. “You didn’t by any chance know anything about that somehow, did you?”

“No,” he said. He gulped coffee and stood up. “I just did some quick searches on Yelp and a reference librarian helped me compile a list of shelters. Then I checked addresses, and West River was close enough that I could stop by from time to time to see how things are going.”

“Well, hurry up,” she told him. “We leave in forty-five minutes. And we have to get you a haircut sometime today. You’re starting to look like a sulky rock star.”

“Well, I am a rock star,” he said, deadpan.

She laughed. “That you are.”

Galvanized into action, he showered in record time and dressed in jeans, lumberjack-style boots and a navy blue, ribbed pullover sweater. When he strode into the kitchen Pia had another cup of coffee waiting for him, along with a huge sandwich. He leaned back against the counter, took a large bite and said around his mouthful, “Where’s Dad?”

“Working.” A shadow fell over Pia’s face.

He paused with the sandwich halfway to his mouth. “Is it stuff about Con?”

“Probably,” she said. The shadow passed, and she smiled at him. “He said if he can get away for an hour, he would join us in a bit. Not to look at the animals, of course.

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