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frozen pizza.”
    â€œ Um. Not really.”
    She scowled at him.
    â€œ What?”
    â€œ I wish you would’ve taken the cooking
lessons you won. It would be a dream to teach you to cook in this
kitchen.”
    Cam slid his hands around her hips to cup her ass and
urged her lower body against his. “You really think we would’ve
gotten any cooking done? Or maybe I just would’ve spread you
out across my table and feasted on you. ’Cause princess, you
look mighty tasty.”
    A shuddering breath left her lungs.
    He kissed the corners of her mouth. “I want you
like crazy. I wanna tie you to my bed for days. But before any of
that happens, we need to get some things straight.”
    She nodded. “Can we sit outside and talk? It’s
such a beautiful day.”
    â€œ Sure. Would you like a beer?”
    â€œ A beer would be fine.”
    â€œ Head out onto the back deck and I’ll bring
it to you.”
    Cam heard the sliding glass door open, forgetting Gracie
was penned in the backyard until Domini shrieked. He turned just in
time to see Domini leap on the antique oak table.
    Gracie barked and raced around excitedly, thinking it
was a game.
    â€œ Gracie! Sit.”
    A disbelieving whimper sounded and then the Border
collie obeyed.
    â€œ Good girl.” Cam crossed to the dog,
ignoring Domini crouched like a cat about to pounce. He ruffled
Gracie’s silky ears. “Listen up, pup. Domini hasn’t
been around dogs as cool as you, so give her some time to adjust. Be
on your best behavior and before you know it, you’ll have
Domini sneakin’ you treats and rubbing your fat belly.
Understand?”
    Gracie barked twice.
    â€œ Good girl. Stay.” Cam grabbed a new rawhide
chew out of the pantry. The second Gracie saw it her tail thumped.
Her tongue flopped past her gums in a doggie version of a smile. He
couldn’t help but grin. The damn dog cracked him up. “If
I let you out in the pasture, you can’t be sneakin’ up on
Colby’s cattle.”
    A tiny, sad noise hummed from Gracie.
    Domini said, “She’d do that?”
    â€œ Yep. Her breed is great for herding. Since I
don’t have cattle she tries to herd everyone else’s
cattle. Back here. The first couple times my brothers were amused.
After that, not so much.”
    Gracie whined pitifully again.
    â€œ I mean it, Gracie. No chasing cows.”
    Two more barks.
    Cam shot a look over his shoulder at Domini. “Be
right back without the mutt. Grab the beer and I’ll meetcha
outside.” He whistled loudly and Gracie raced out of the house
hell bent for leather.
    When he returned, Domini had curled up in a lounge chair
in the far corner of the deck. Sunglasses covered her eyes and she’d
wrapped both hands around a bottle of Bud Light.
    He snagged a beer and eased himself into the chair
beside her. “Sorry about that.”
    â€œ Not your fault I freaked out about a dog. I
should be apologizing because I jumped on the table like a spooked
cat.” She muttered in Ukrainian and gulped her beer.
    â€œ We all have fears, princess.”
    â€œ Even you?”
    â€œ Especially me.” Cam pried her fingers away
from the beer bottle so he could hold her hand. “But maybe you
oughta come clean about what happened that makes you so afraid of
dogs.”
    Domini gazed off into the distance, as if gauging her
words. “When I was six, we were relocating from Kiev to Kharkiv
because everything was in chaos due to the Chernobyl incident. We
were waiting outside the train station, when two Soviet policemen
showed up with a German shepherd police dog. A big, mean, snarly
attack dog. Although I’d done nothing wrong, I…ran.”
    Cam’s throat closed up.
    â€œ The dog chased me until it caught me. By the time
the police and my parents separated me from the dog’s jaws, I
was already bleeding badly. I remember little of the hospital