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“She’s got your eyes,” he grinned. “Let me pick this up, and we’ll call it a night.”
“You don’t mind?”
“Are you going to run from me tomorrow?”
“Are you going to hunt me down and follow me again?”
“Yes,” he said unabashedly. “I haven’t given up, and thoroughly enjoy our banter. You aren’t going to ditch me that easily… especially now that we have a little one in our lives.”
“You did this on purpose, didn’t you?”
“Possibly,” he smiled tenderly. “Forgive me?”
“We’ll see how Gigi behaves tonight.”
10
JUNE
She was goingto kill Ian… slowly.
Gigi was awfully sweet – but a holy terror. She had to let her out to use the restroom every few minutes for almost an hour before she realized that the small puppy was playing with her.
Then, she cried because she couldn’t get on the bed with June. Caving, she stacked a few items alongside her bed so the dog could climb up… only for Gigi to realize she was afraid of heights.
She also took it upon herself to play with the contents of her bathroom trashcan, scattering it everywhere, along with leaving multiple…multiple… ‘surprises’ in the living room when she got up.
Gigi was sitting there, tongue lolling, tail wagging, and watching her with a happy, ‘Look what I did for you!’ expression on her shaggy face.
“You are getting a haircut,” June muttered under her breath, “And a baby gate… and Ian is getting a talking-to.”
* * *
An hour later,June fed Gigi and managed to drag her TV console across the kitchen entry, so that way it would confine the puppy to the linoleum floor in case of more accidents. She would be safe, secure, had food and water, until she got to take a lunch to let her out, or was able to run past the house to check on her. Having a puppy was really like having a child to take care of! She needed love, attention, care, and feeding… and then came the ‘diapers’.
“Mercy…” she muttered, glancing at her watch and realizing that the afternoon flew past her.
Wrapping up her day, putting away her files and making a few last phone calls – she grabbed her purse and moved to stand up, only to see her phone was ringing once more. Instinctively, she answered it.
“June Peyton, Re-max. What can I do for you?”
“Well, you could leave in the next ten minutes, because you have a very impatient hot date waiting to whisk you away.”
“Hot date? I’m meeting a friend.”
“Can’t I be both?”
“You shouldn’t be…”
“Live dangerously, Minx…”
“You were living dangerously this morning when I saw a tiny terror covered in fur and my destroyed house,” she warned openly and chuckled. “It was a good thing we were apart…”
“WAIT,” Ian interrupted quickly. “You mean I left and there was a chance we could have been together last night? Oh mannnn… I’m gonna cry.”
“What? Oh! Ohhhh… No, Ian,” she laughed nervously. “It’s a figure of speech.”
“Tonight then?” he said hopefully in a sheepish voice that had her laughing even more as he flirted and teased her.
