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So Bree shut the door on his sexy face

She didn’t feel like playing games

Or maybe she was offended that he could want her physically but had reservations about liking her, as a person

Of course, she was doing the sa his body but not necessarily hi too coo Done with it

But she still found herself wandering back into the kitchen and pulling out her tarot cards Maybe they would reveal to her why, exactly, a sexy lawyer froht back out

Only all she could seem to see in the cards was a future real-estate transaction, which was totally boring, and totally wrong She was not going to sell her house to Ian Carrington’s rich client

"Never," she said out loud to the spread in front of her, pushing all the cards back into a pile and wondering if she had any ice cream in the freezer

Cold outside or not, she could use a little co in the driveway of the bed-and-breakfast he was staying in, annoyed with hi Bree to dinner, when he sensed er seat and slammed on the brakes

"What the hell?"

Bree’s cat was sitting on the seat, staring up at hiet into my car?" The doors had been shut at Bree’s house Locked He was positive of that Even if he had, just this one tiotten to lock it, it wasn’t like the cat could open car doors by herself

But Akasha wasn’t answering him, thank God, and he had no choice but to put the car in reverse and drive back to Bree’s Ian glanced over at the cat every few seconds, wary of her He didn’t believe in ic or witches or the power of black cats

Nonetheless, he had a feline Houdininext to hi hi of greenery dangling fro

"What?" Ian asked her in irritation "You look stupid with that thing hanging from your mouth, you know"

Akasha dropped the mistletoe onto the seat

Ian felt the hair on the back of his neck rise Man, he needed to get out of this town Cuttersville billed itself as Ohio’s Most Haunted Town, and he had always thought it was a ridiculous designation Noas struggling with the illogic of certain things, like the drea and this crazy-ass cat

"Okay, you’re ho where the hell you are" Ian parked his car in Bree’s driveway and gave a sigh as he glanced up at the big Victorian It was a cool house, totally different fro hih his mother’s far But this Victorian was pretty and coed witch who lived there shared the saoing to be thrilled to see hiain

She didn’t see fro lust that he was Unfortunately

Grabbing the cat in a fir the bell

Bree answered the door with a frown "What are you doing with Akasha?"

NotYeah, she so wasn’t interested in him She held her hands out for her pet, and Ian turned the cat over

"She was inI drove all the way through town and looked over, and suddenly she was just sitting on the passenger seat"

He still couldn’t iine how it had happened, but there it was

Bree’s eyebrows rose "You can’t be serious"

"Totally I have no idea how it could have happened, but I swear to God, she was suddenly just there with me"

"Yeah, because cats just open car doors and jump in" Bree rolled her eyes

Ian frowned back "I know it’s insane," he said in irritation "But she was in my car, and I didn’t put her there"

"Whatever"

There was no single word er He couldn’t stand it when people said that to him It catapulted him back to childhood, when his older sister would toss "whatever" at him a hundred times a day It made him feel dismissed, humiliated

So he immediately reacted "What, you think I swiped your da?"

"That certainly see ht add--in the five minutes you and I sat in my kitchen It’s ridiculous"

"So is the idea that I would steal your cat, and then bring her right back What kind of nation rose What, like he’d steal a freakin’ cat? "And ould I want your cat anyway?"