Unbearably Cute by Pepper McGraw

Author:Pepper McGraw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PMG Publishing

Six

KATE WAS FURIOUS. She couldn’t believe Lyle hadn’t come to work at all the day before.

He’d even ignored her phone calls and texts.

When she’d asked Jefferson what was going on, he’d just grinned and said, “Lyle’s spending the day with his girlfriend,” which was not the agreement.

Lyle was supposed to be adopting Kate’s dog and bringing him to her, not hanging out with his girlfriend.

This was why Kate demanded, “Where’s my dog?” the minute Lyle walked into the garage the next morning.

Lyle ignored her question and made a beeline for the Bear Necessities table where he started piling pastries onto a plate. He shoved a cake donut in his mouth and set about making himself a cup of coffee.

“Lyle!” Kate exclaimed.

“What?” His voice was muffled due to the donut.

“Where’s my dog?”

“What dog?”

Kate gasped. “What dog? The dog I sent you to Pleasantville to adopt. The dog for Maggie!”

“Oh, that dog. I didn’t see him there, sorry.”

“What do you mean you didn’t see him? Did you even look?”

Lyle let out a huge sigh, set down his coffee cup and turned to face Kate.

She took a step back at the look on his face. “What’s wrong, Lyle?”

“What’s wrong?” He stalked across the office toward her.

At that moment, the office door opened and Pete and Ryan trooped across the office toward the Bear Necessities table, but Kate was too focused on Lyle to respond to their greetings.

Lyle seemed awfully upset, which was pretty unusual for the laidback wolf.

“Do you know what I spent my entire day yesterday doing?” he demanded.

“Um, no.”

“I spent hours at a cat rescue center in the middle of a human town, then I spent hours inside a human pet store buying cat food and litter boxes and cat toys and dog beds and dog food. Do you know why I was buying those things, Kate?”

“Because you adopted my dog for Maggie?” She asked hopefully.

“Not even close,” he said. “But I did adopt a toy dog. Do you know why they call them toy dogs?”

Kate shook her head.

“Because they’re so small they look like little stuffed animal toys. Do you know what else I adopted yesterday?”

Kate shook her head.

“Two black cats.”

“Do you know what I didn’t adopt yesterday?”

Kate shook her head again.

“The mythical dog that looks like a lion that you sent me there to adopt! You know why I didn’t adopt him?” He continued before she could shake her head again, “Because I ended up with two cats and Heather fell in love with the toy dog within two seconds of us entering the dog room. I couldn’t risk exploring further in case she found another dog or two or ten that she wanted to adopt. So thanks, Kate. Brilliant idea. I now have two cats and a dog while you still have no gift for Maggie.” He turned, stalked over to the Bear Necessities table, grabbed his coffee and plate of pastries and stormed out.

The minute the door slammed shut behind him, Ryan and Pete, who had been off to the side, eyes wide, clearly barely containing themselves, finally burst into laughter.

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