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off after I rip another part of his anatomy. Grrr …” Her lips snarled, but when he glanced back, she winked.
    Cade swallowed the drool collecting in his mouth. What he wouldn’t give to have her rip her fangs and nails all over his body.
    “Wait,” she said. “Let me get my wallet. I’m sure you’re a poor student and since I’m going to hit you up with vet costs, at least let me buy the drinks.”
    Because he wanted her to believe he wasn’t the idiotic quarterback who threw away his Super Bowl ring, and because he desired to owe her something, he accepted the ten dollar bill.
    “Don’t run off with my money,” she quipped. “I have your dog by the balls.”
    He’s not the only male you have by the balls. Cade readjusted his pants and growled into his throat. All the thoughts about ancient and animal sex had him riled up, and since he’d sworn off groupies and trolling bars, and no one in this small town knew who he was, it looked like his balls would be blue for a very long time.
    Unless he got lucky and Red really did knock up Miss Gollie.

Chapter 4
    “Dad, you awake?” Andie tiptoed into her father’s office which had been converted into a sickroom. A hospital bed had taken the place of his desk, but the rows and rows of books on the built-in shelves remained.
    Not that she expected an answer. Her father couldn’t speak after his stroke, and he was paralyzed on one side.
    Andie’s mother wiped her hands with a towel and looked up. “He’s awake, but he won’t talk.”
    “Here’s the puppy.” Andie tried to squelch the image of her Gollie being mounted by that powerful male. Hopefully the pregnancy didn’t take since Gollie was only a year old or so, according to the lady who she got her from.
    The dog wagged her tail and ambled into the sickroom, sniffing the bedframe.
    “James, look what we got here,” her mother cooed. “I know you miss ol’ Buster, but we have a young lady for you.”
    Her father’s face remained turned toward the wall even when Mom took his good hand and placed it on the dog’s head. His arm muscles tightened for a moment and then as the dog nuzzled and licked him, he grunted and made an effort to pet her.
    “Let’s leave them to get acquainted,” Mom said. “You got home late. What happened?”
    “Nothing, just things I had to put away.” Andie followed her mother to the kitchen. “Gollie got in a little bit of trouble today.”
    “Did you keep her on a leash?” Mom donned hot mitts and took a casserole from the oven.
    “Yeah, I did, but, there’s this new guy, and his dog wasn’t on a leash, or at least he broke his leash.” Heat broiled under Andie’s collar and she could feel her face flushing bright red. “His dog’s a male.”
    The casserole thumped onto the dining table. “Don’t tell me Gollie’s not spayed. I thought Fran said she was all fixed up and ready. We paid for the spaying.”
    Fran lived outside of town in a converted barn where she housed rescues and found homes for them.
    “Then maybe she is spayed, but the male’s just extra, I don’t know …”
    She tugged the back of her collar and set the silverware on the table. If his owner, the big man, Cade Preston or whatever his name was, were half as horndog as his stud …
    “I’ll call her after dinner. But it’s probably nothing. Dogs do that behavior even if they’re spayed or neutered. By the way, you got a phone call.”
    “Me?” Call them old-fashioned, but Andie and her parents were one of the few people in town without cell phones.
    Mom slipped her a piece of paper. “The man who called wanted a library pass to the antique document collection. I told him to call you at work, but he left his number.”
    Cade sure worked fast. After he returned with the lattes, they hadn’t been able to sit around and drink them because his horny dog wanted to mount Gollie again, as if he hadn’t gotten enough already.
    Cade had given her his phone number to call in case she