Total pages in book: 121
Estimated words: 118693 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 593(@200wpm)___ 475(@250wpm)___ 396(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 118693 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 593(@200wpm)___ 475(@250wpm)___ 396(@300wpm)
“Looks like Flash has been causing a bit of drama, huh?”
Rolling my eyes, I mumbled, “You have no idea.”
“Maybe you should talk to someone about it. Like me for instance, over dinner. Tonight.”
Damn, this woman is blunt. I was tired of women throwing themselves at me. It was all meaningless anymore.
My eyes widened at my sudden realization.
“Finn? Are you okay? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
I shook my head. “No…sorry. The last few days have been long. Listen, I appreciate the dinner invite, but I’m kind of seeing someone.”
Huh? What in the hell?
Her lips formed into a pout. “Well, I guess that’s my loss, isn’t it?”
The only thing I could do was smile.
I lied. Why in the hell did I lie?
Maybe I thought it was easier to tell her that than to turn her down?
I shook my head to clear my thoughts.
“Thank you so much for catching this little bastard... I mean…for catching Flash.”
She covered her mouth and chuckled. “Well, maybe I’ll see you both out running sometime.”
Nodding, I lifted my hand. “Thanks again, Julie.”
“Sure! Anytime!” she called out as Flash and I took off on a run.
“All right, what’s wrong?” Colton asked as I sat down on my sofa. Flash jumped up next to me and spilled the popcorn everywhere in his attempts to sit on me.
“Damn it, Flash!” I shouted. “Get off the sofa!”
I gave him a hard push, and Flash jumped off and promptly ran across the room and jumped up on Colton.
Sighing in frustration, I got up and started to clean up the popcorn.
“Okay, I know it’s not the dog that has you all uptight.”
Shooting daggers at Colton, I pointed to the sofa arm. “Do you not see the arm half chewed off?”
Colton looked down and attempted to hold back his smile. “He sure did a number on it. How long is Cap making you keep this mutt?”
“Probably until he drives me insane, and I can no longer take it.”
This time he didn’t hold his laughter back. “Seriously, though, it’s not the dog that’s bothering you. I can tell you like him.”
I huffed. “The thing is destroying my place and eating me out of it at the same damn time.”
Plopping back onto the sofa, I scrubbed my hands down my face. “For fuck’s sake. I can’t get her out of my mind.”
“And there it is. It’s finally happened.”
“What’s finally happened?” I asked, dropping my hands to my side.
“That girl.”
My brows pinched together as I stared at him. “That girl?”
Colton sipped his beer, taking his time responding to me. “Yep. That girl that makes you rethink everything. Like, do I really want to go out tonight and mindlessly flirt with women? Am I really gonna have a one-night stand with the hot chick I met at Subway? Will I ever call the number I got from the yoga instructor after she went blatantly out of her way to guide me into my poses today?”
Squeezing my eyes shut, I said, “Wait,” as I looked at Colton. “When in the hell did you sign up for yoga and did you really sleep with someone you met at Subway?”
“Dude, are you listening to me, and where have you been? Do you know how many women I’ve messed around with from my yoga class alone?”
“Subway?” I asked, my curiosity getting the better of me.
“You’re not listening, Finn. I’m saying Rory is the one girl who is going to change everything. Your playing days are over. Like Zeb’s is and mine kind of are.”
I laughed. “Kind of? I thought you and…what was her name again?”
“Melissa.”
“Things not going well with you two?”
Colton shrugged. “It’s going.”
“Are you not exclusive?”
“I guess for right now we are.”
Lifting my brow with a questioning look, I replied, “You guess for right now? It sounds like you’re more confused than me.”
Shooting me the finger, Colton called Flash up onto his lap again after the bastard had jumped down to chew on a toy. “We aren’t talking about me right now, though, are we?”
“Oh man, don’t call him up here. Flash, down. Down, boy.”
Colton rubbed Flash between his ears, instantly getting him to lie on his lap.
“You know what’s going to happen? I’m going to take him back to the station this week,” I explained, “and he’s going to jump in Adams’s lap and then I’m fucked because I’ll be blamed for teaching the beast that.”
Flash lifted his head and looked at me. My heart sank. Damn, he really was a cute dog. “You’re not a beast, just a pain in the ass.”
He put his head back down and closed his eyes.
“Let’s get back to Rory. Ask her out.”
“I have! She keeps turning me down. She said her dad wouldn’t be too happy with her dating a firefighter.”
With a roar of laughter, Colton pointed to me. “Or you! Dude, could you imagine if Cap found out you were dating his daughter? Holy shit. You think he doesn’t like you now—he may have you killed.”