Animal Attraction: A Hot In Hollywood Novella by Katee Robert

Author:Katee Robert
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Levi expected Brooklyn to shriek when he snuck up on her. He didn’t expect her to flip around and punch him in the face. He reeled back, clutching his nose. “Fuck!”

“Shit!” Instantly, she was there, going on her tip toes to try to pry his hand off his face. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry! I didn’t realize it was you. I didn’t even hear you walk up.”

He gingerly pressed the bridge of his nose. It wasn’t broken, but she’d still knocked him for a loop. “Good in the woods.”

“No, really? God, just sit down before you fall down.” She pressed him down to the ground and crouched next to him. If the circumstances were any different, he’d have made a joke about liking her being bossy, but the guilt in her face expression stopped him. That and the fact he felt like his nose was several sizes too big for his face. Brooklyn nudged his forehead. “Tilt back. You’re not bleeding, but this will help make sure you don’t start.”

He eyed her even as he obeyed. “It’s fine. It’s not broken.”

“You don’t have to be manly and tough right now. I know that hurts.”

Levi chuckled and instantly regretted it. “You make a habit of getting punched in the nose?”

“Nope. But it only takes once to know I never want to go through that again.” She shifted closer and bent over to look at it. “You’ll live to fight another day.”

“Lucky me.” He closed his eyes for several seconds, but reluctantly opened them. Even so, he was half surprised that she hadn’t taken the opportunity to bolt. “We have to stop meeting like this. You, trespassing. Me, catching you”

She shook her head but sifted her fingers through his hair as if she couldn’t help herself. “I’ll stop trespassing when you return what you stole.”

There were so many problems with that so-called solution that he didn’t bother listing them. There was no happy ending for him if Fisk realized he’d stolen the damn dog. Levi didn’t regret it, but their opposing goals regarding Barbaras lay between them like a living thing. There was no compromise possible. One of them would succeed and the other would fail, and it would be the end of whatever this fledgling thing was that had grown between them. “Stay the night.”

She blinked. “If you wanted me to stay, you could have just said something. You didn’t have to surprise me into assaulting you.”

“Boring. I like to keep things spicy. It’s part of my dubious charm.”

“Can’t really argue that.” She laughed and shook her head. “Well, at least I know you’re okay. If you can still make cheesy come-ons and snark at me, you aren’t that hurt.”

Levi carefully dropped his hand and straightened. When the soreness in his nose didn’t get worse, he grinned. “Life is never dull around me.”

“I’m starting to see that.” She sat back on her heels. “My staying the night is a bad idea. Anything resembling a repeat is a hella bad idea, too.

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