Once Upon A Wild Fling by Lauren Blakely

Author:Lauren Blakely [Blakely, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little Dog Press
Published: 2018-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

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Roxy

“Short but not too short. Do you know what I mean?” the bespectacled woman with the Hermès scarf asks, moving her thumb and forefinger back and forth, back and forth, as if to indicate the moving target of her grooming request for her border collie mix.

Thus begins my Friday morning, six days post fantastic kiss.

“I have the gist of it, but if you could be a tad more specific, that would help. When you say short but not too short, tell me what short means to you,” I say with a smile as I check-in Lucy the collie.

“Two inches or maybe three, but one might be best.”

The debate lasts five more minutes, until I get out a ruler and we settle on the ideal length for Lucy.

A little later, a nanny brings a snarling Pomeranian in and swears that Freda’s owner says she won’t bite, even though Freda’s favorite activity seems to be baring her teeth.

Fortunately, we’re used to these jaw-baring pups, and the key isn’t putting them in a chokehold during a bath. It’s soothing their nerves beforehand. “Funnily enough, aromatherapy works well for panicky pooches,” I tell the nanny, and a half hour later, Freda is chilling out to some Bach and a little vanilla essence in a bubble bath.

When a man dressed in a suit, like a chauffeur, arrives with a pair of pussycats in pink rhinestone-studded carrying crates, he informs me the owner has requested the Bird TV grooming room for their brushing and sends his assurances that Betsy and Daisy won’t scratch.

The owner’s not entirely truthful, and my cat stylist, Lizzie, shows me the claw marks on her jacket that afternoon. But when she ushers me back to the Bird TV room, she’s smiling proudly as she shows me a pair of long-haired Siamese who are stunning with their new blowouts.

“Don’t they look perfect?” Lizzie asks excitedly, caring more about the end result than a few nicks on her jacket.

“You did good work, heading into battle with the girls.”

Once the day mercifully ends, I’m grateful to head home. Along the way, I check my emails, finding one from Genevieve. I brace myself for bad news, but when I click it open, I nearly squeal.

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