Men Out of Uniform: 6 Book Omnibus by Rhonda Russell

Author:Rhonda Russell [Russell, Rhonda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Firefly Press
Published: 2017-11-13T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 3

He’d been wrong, Huck thought darkly, two hours later.

They weren’t paying him enough.

Sapphira wagged the little dogs paw’s in his direction as they pulled away from the Pampered Pet Day Spa. “Now don’t those look lovely? I think the hot pink shade looks absolutely divine with her shiny white coat.”

Huck snorted, unable to think of a single thing to say that wouldn’t be inappropriate considering that, technically, this beautiful but sadly demented woman was his boss. I mean, really, what did one say about a dog getting a manicure? Better still, what nice thing could one say about the dog getting a manicure?

Honestly, when she’d blown off his question regarding the letters with the announcement about her appointment, he’d assumed she’d needed to go to the doctor, or at the very least something equally important. It never occurred to him--though given the cryptic comments McCann had made about Trixie, in retrospect, it should have--that the appointment was for a spa treatment.

For her dog.

Having grown up on the fringes of the idle rich, Huck knew they could waste an inordinate amount of money on things that were self-indulgent, wasteful and stupid to the point of idiocy, but this--he cast a glance at Sapphira who was currently snuggling her little newly coiffed animal--this took the cake.

And to make matters worse, for reasons he couldn’t explain, he was jealous of the damned dog.

Odd, too, when he’d been certain that he’d caught a glimpse of...something...behind those surprising pretty green eyes. Though he couldn’t put his finger on what exactly, he’d seen it all the same. Longing? Regret? Reticence? A combination of all three, maybe? He couldn’t be sure. But something about this was off, Huck decided, every sense he had going on heightened alert, and ultimately, though he could see where it was going to be difficult to keep the goal in focus, his job was to discover precisely what that was.

Furthermore, considering this was his first assignment for Ranger Security, failure simply was not an option. Frankly, he had to live up to their expectations and allowing Sapphira--he cast a dark look at Trixie--or, more disturbingly, her dog to make a fool of him would not happen. He slid them another look and felt his grim mood plummet even further.

Hell would flood, freeze, and thaw first.

Of course, in a perfect world she’d be fat, ugly, stupid and unpleasant--she would not have an ass as lush and ripe as a Georgia peach, intelligent eyes the shade of a new leaf on an old vine and a body that put him in mind of hot sex on a hotter night. She would not make his skin burn and his lips twitch and she wouldn’t make his dick stir in his jeans. He chalked that disturbing phenomenon up to his recent stint of abstinence--he’d been too busy trying to heal to make sex a priority.

Clearly he’d left it too long, otherwise he was certain he wouldn’t possibly be attracted to this woman.

In fact, were there

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