Puppy Love by Lucy Gilmore

Author:Lucy Gilmore
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2019-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

As was the case with most things in life, all good things had to come to an end.

“Um, you know how I mentioned that thing about my mom?” Sophie asked as she, Harrison, and Bubbles pulled up the road to the Parks farmhouse. All three of them smelled like stale smoke and looked like dried meat, but that seemed about right. Camping was serious business. “About how she’s staying at my house right now?”

Harrison grunted a noncommittal response. To be fair, his attention was taken up with his truck’s sharp turn into the drive, but he could have at least provided a yes or a no answer. She wasn’t such a fool that she assumed a few hot sexual interludes in the wilderness would cure Harrison of his taciturnity forever, but she’d hoped they’d at least have reached the monosyllabic stage.

Alas, not even the lure of her mighty vagina was that strong. Her determination to prove the rest of her was that strong, however, compelled her to keep going.

“According to this series of increasingly outraged texts from Dawn, it seems she has no intention of leaving anytime soon,” she said. “She’s even talking about installing one of those beds that pulls down from the wall and making her stay a prolonged one.”

The truck came crunching to a halt, and Harrison cranked the parking brake. “Because she’s being overprotective?”

“Well, yes.”

She shifted in her seat, grateful for the need to get Bubbles comfortably out of the cab. Nothing provided a distraction quite like a puppy. They were a lot like babies that way. Slinging her bag over one shoulder and her purse over the other, she scooped the dog up and opened the door. To her surprise, Harrison was waiting on the other side. Wordlessly, he placed his hands on either side of her waist and helped her down.

His truck was tall—taller than her Fiat, certainly—but she could have easily made it down on her own. In fact, this kind of assistance, this careful solicitude, was the exact thing she resented from anyone related to her by blood. She was no small, precious thing that needed to be guarded from the world.

But as Harrison’s hands lingered and his fingers crept down toward her ass, she felt nothing but a delightfully girlish thrill. To be cherished and protected because she was perceived as weak was a thing she loathed. To be cherished and protected because Harrison couldn’t keep his hands off her was something she could get used to.

Way too used to, if the sudden throb between her legs was any indication.

He set her on the ground with his hands still in place. Sophie had to look up to meet his gaze, which she did with easy frankness. Just as frankly—but not as easily—she said, “The reason my mom is being like this is because of you. She heard about our, um, altercation at knitting circle and decided you were out to destroy her precious darling.”

A frown touched the corners of Harrison’s mouth.

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