Love Me if You Dare by Toni Blake

Author:Toni Blake [Blake, Toni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780062229533
Amazon: B00KPV3O66
Barnesnoble: B00KPV3O66
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-12-30T05:00:00+00:00

All are keeping a sharp look-out in front,

but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.

J. M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy

Chapter 13

THE NEXT morning, she got dressed and made the short walk to the bakery up the way. She bought three glazed donuts, two for her, one for Tiger. She didn’t know if cats liked glazed donuts, but she supposed she’d soon find out. “If only there were fish-flavored donuts,” she told her feline friend upon her return, “then I’d know exactly what to get you.”

Tearing one of the donuts into small, cat-bite-sized pieces in a small glass bowl designed to look like a seashell from the bedside table, she lowered it to the floor. She’d also bought a small carton of milk, so she poured a little of that over the donut bites for good measure. She didn’t know much about cats, but she at least knew they liked milk.

Tiger lapped at the milk like a maniac, then nosed at the donut bits, then resumed lapping the milk, so she nudged his little orangy face aside long enough to pour in a bit more. And as she ate her own breakfast, she kept glancing down to see that eventually the cat experimented with eating the soggy donut bits and that by the time she finished her breakfast, he had too—his bowl was empty and had literally been licked clean.

She smiled down at him. “You are a donut eater!” Maybe being a cat person wasn’t so hard. Maybe, like many things in life, it was just a little trial and error.

“But . . . I guess it’s time for you to go back to Polly.”

She felt a little bad about that in a way. I shouldn’t, though. It’s not like I have a good place to keep the cat. He was an illegal boarder at the Happy Crab, after all. And surely he’d find a nice home somewhere, with someone Polly just hadn’t asked yet. And he had a much better chance of finding that home back at the Hungry Fisherman where Polly could keep right on asking people.

Scooping Tiger up into her arms, she suffered a tiny jolt of melancholy, but looked down at the cat and said, “You’ll be fine.”

“Meow,” he said. And it sounded like a plea.

“You will,” she insisted. “Because you have to be and that’s all there is to it. Got it?”

He didn’t reply—but that’s okay, because he’s a cat and they don’t really reply—and she stuffed her room key in the pocket of her shorts and, with a quick look up and down the sidewalk outside her door, she set out for the restaurant across the blacktop.

It was early, only a couple of cars parked off to one side, and she assumed those belonged to restaurant staff, so she figured it would be safe enough to carry Tiger in the front door.

So it came as a surprise when she strolled in to see Polly standing with a man in khakis and a button-down shirt holding a clipboard.

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