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PROLOGUE
"Aspen," I turn away from the ultrasound machine I was staring at.
"Yeah?" I rub my eyes, which are tired and strained from counting the number of vertebrae on the black-and-white screen.
"Jeez, how many are in there?" Gretchen smiles as she walks over to me to take a closer look.
"I can clearly see fourteen, but I'm not one hundred percent sure." I stand and stretch out my back.
"Poor Pussy." I laugh at her joke and nod.
"It's the biggest litter of kittens we've had to date, for sure. Did you need me?" My partner was out sick today, but thank God the weather was keeping people home.
"Just to tell you, the last appointment just canceled. Oh, and by the way. He's back." She winks at me before leaving me standing in the room dumbfounded.
"Are you serious?" I call after her a few moments later when my brain restarts.
"He's been parked outside for the last half hour. You also got those delivered today." I glance at the flowers she points to and sigh.
"This has got to stop. I realize he's grateful for me saving his partner, but no means no." I stomp over to the front doors and push it open.
Officer Malachi Nassar has been the thorn in my side for weeks now. Every night, he’s parked outside my veterinary clinic. He follows me home and doesn’t leave until I turn off my lights.
I’ve lost count of the number of flower deliveries I’ve gotten over the last eight weeks. I politely asked him to stop when he brought Foxy, his K9 partner, in to get her cast removed last week. To which he ever so politely ignored my request.
This is starting to make me wonder if he’s got some type of stalker fetish, and every time I think of that, a shiver runs down my back. I groan because I should be disgusted, not turned on by that fact.
No more romance novels for me.
A strong gust of wind grabs ahold of it and slams it into the brick wall, shattering the glass and spraying me with sharp shards.
"FUCK!" I scream above the howling wind of the thunderstorm pouring on me.
I managed to block my face, but I could feel a couple of cuts from the glass.
"ASPEN!" I heard him call my name and a loud bark a moment later.
Great.
I just gave him a reason to play hero.
Gretchen is pulling on my arm to get me back inside when Malachi and Foxy reach us, hovering by the now broken glass door.
"Clean her up. I'll call this in to get it fixed. " He takes control of the situation like his training demands, but this is my business.
"No, you will get Foxy home and out of this storm. I will call my insurance and handle it. Why are you even here?" I snatch the gauze Gretchen appears with and whisper sorry so she knows It's not her that I'm mad at.
"Aspen," I glare at his smooth, calm tone.
"NO. Thank you for the flowers. Now leave, Officer Nassar." I snap and try to push him outside.
"Foxy, stay. Excuse us a moment." The man grabs my hand, and
drags me into one of the examination rooms, and slams the door close.
I open my mouth to curse him out, but he's got me pinned up against it by my neck a moment later, and my panties go up in flames when I see the look in his eyes.
Passion, possession, and pain.
