Cat of a Different Color: Halle Pumas, Book 3 Read Online Free PDF

him on the head with a baseball bat if he tries,” she replied calmly.
    “He’s a good man, and he’ll take good care of you.”
    “I can take care of myself, thank you very much.”
    “His mother’s going to love you.”
    “She’s never going to meet me.”
    “She’s Pride, she already has, and knock it the hell off.”
    “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she sniffed as she finished tying a pretty gold bow to the box.
    Her hands were lifted away from the bow. She looked up into Simon’s dark eyes. “You’re mates. Trust me, there’s no denying it. I fought my pull towards Becky for six months…hell, if I’m honest it was probably longer than that, and it was pure agony.”
    “So?”
    “So if you fight it, the dreams will start. Hot, sweaty dreams. The kind that leave you aching. And it gets worse. You’ll feel no desire for anyone else, because if your body can’t have the real thing it’ll take the dreams. There is no denying your mate .”
    She pulled her dark glasses down and tried not to squint in the light. She allowed her eyes to flash red. “Rudy will kill him. If my denying him protects him—”
    “Bullshit.”
    Sheri winced; she hadn’t noticed the bell over the door jingling. She pushed her glasses back up her nose and pulled back into herself. “Hello, Dr. Giordano.”
    “Call Becky,” Adrian said to Simon.
    “Why?” Simon asked.
    For an answer, Adrian vaulted over the glass countertop and slung Sheri over his shoulder in a fireman’s hold. He ignored her squeak of protest, picked up Jerry’s harness. Jerry, the traitor, immediately obeyed as Adrian carted them calmly out of the building. “Bye, Simon!”
    Simon’s laughter boomed out behind her. “Bye, guys.”
    “Put me down,” Sheri growled.
    “Nope.”
    “Put me down now, doofus!”
    He huffed out a laugh. “You’re not the first person to call me that.”
    She stilled, an unreasonable jealousy causing her to see red. “Who?”
    “Simon and Max.”
    She relaxed. “Oh.”
    “You bite me and I’ll paddle you. Just so you know.”
    His cheerful tone of voice was really beginning to grate on her nerves. That and her upside down position was beginning to give her a headache. “You and what army, bud?”
    “You think I need help handling you, princess?”
    She grunted as he put her in his car with a loud smacking kiss on the top of her head. She felt three years old. “You know, they have some pretty good drugs for people with your condition. Have you considered taking some?”
    “Don’t even think of getting out of the car.”
    “I wouldn’t dream of it. You have my dog,” she muttered and folded her arms over her chest as he shut the car door with a laugh. At least her sunglasses hadn’t fallen off. Of course, Dr. Doofus hadn’t bothered to grab her jacket, so she was sitting there freezing her ass off in her thin black blouse and pants. The dork.
    He grinned, opened the driver’s side door and put Jerry in the back. The traitor settled in happily, waving his tail as Adrian petted him. Then Adrian got in behind the wheel and started the car.
    “Where are we going?”
    She could hear the smile in his voice. “My place.”
    “No.”
    “No what?”
    “No, I’m not going to your place.”
    “Oh. Sorry.”
    “Good. Take me back.”
    “Nope.”
    “Then what are you sorry for?”
    “For disappointing you. You are going to my place.”
    “Dr. Giordano,” she started to say.
    He put his hand over her mouth. “My name is Adrian.”
    “Mph rr hmph.”
    “What?” Adrian took his hand off her mouth.
    “Thank you.”
    “Uh, you’re welcome?”
    “Now take me back to the store.” She folded her arms across her chest again and glared at him, trying desperately not to shiver with cold. He noticed it anyway and put the heater on.
    “No.”
    “Now.”
    “No.”
    “I mean it!”
    “No.”
    She growled. She freaking growled at him. “ Adrian .”
    “Sorry, mate, not happening, stop