Page 85 of Animal's Reformation
Lucy buried her head in the crook of his neck, and Animal held her for a long while, then he pulled back a little.
“We better get upstairs or you’ll lose your appointment. Do you wanna go out to eat tonight?”
Lucy nodded.
“How about Ruthie’s?” Animal knew that his daughter loved the double chocolate milkshakes there.
Lucy’s head jerked up and there was a small light in her eyes. She nodded again.
“Then that’s what we’ll do, kiddo.” He tucked her hand in his as they made their way to the dentist’s office.
When they entered the reception room, Lucy made a beeline to an elaborate wire bead maze on a low table. For a few seconds, Animal watched her nimble fingers run the beads over the complex wire design, and he tried to bury the rage he felt toward Emerald. For the past three weeks, he’d tried to get a hold of her to no avail. She hadn’t called Lucy at all, and the only reason Animal was reaching out to the fucking bitch was because he thought it would make Lucy feel better, but now he wasn’t too sure about that. Animal didn’t want Emerald to upset Lucy and say something mean to her, and he certainly didn’t want her spiteful ass to take Lucy away to punish him. If she even attempted to do something like that, Animal would fight her with everything he had; there wasn’t a chance in hell that he was going to let Lucy go.
He turned away and walked up to the front desk to check in and his gaze landed on Olivia’s rounded ass encased in a sexy-as-fuck pencil skirt. As if sensing his presence, she whirled around and her smile shone like stars in the sky with no city lights to dim them. Animal smiled back.
“Hi,” she said, coming over to the counter.
“Hey. So this is your other part-time job?”
She nodded. “Who are you seeing today?” Olivia sat down and looked at the computer screen.
“Lucy has an appointment with Dr. Linney.”
“He’s nice, and very good with children. You just need to sign in and if you have insurance, I’ll need the card.”
“No insurance.” Animal scribbled Lucy’s name. “How’ve you been?”
“Good. And you?”
“Itching to go for a long ride. Are you free on Saturday afternoon? Lucy’s going with Jada to the mall and a movie.”
“Saturday’s perfect.”
Animal leaned over the counter. “I’ve missed you, baby.” He inhaled her clean, citrusy scent. “And your perfume right now is driving me fucking wild. Maybe you can sneak over tonight and we can have some fun when Lucy’s asleep.”
“I’d love that, but I’d be worried Lucy would wake up. It’d be horrible if she found us. She’d feel like you betrayed her or something.”
“I know. I just need to be with you again, baby.”
“Me too.”
Olivia brushed her fingers over his hand, and he grabbed and kissed them, his gaze fixed on her heated one.
“Fuck, babe.”
“Olivia, I needed those files ten minutes ago. Get a move on.” A tall man in his early thirties wearing a white coat stood by the printer, glaring at her.
Olivia jumped up from her chair and turned toward him. “I had to tend to something Dr. Linney needed, Dr. Canty. I was just ready to bring you the files,” she said picking up several folders from the desk.
The dentist cut his eyes to Animal, and he stroked his throat and grimaced. “It seems like you’re neglecting your duties.” His gaze averted back to Olivia.
“I’m sorry—” she began.
“What the fuck’s your problem,Doc?” Animal’s lip curled.
Brows lowering and pinching together, Dr. Canty leaned back against the wall. “Excuse me?”
“There’s no fucking excuse for the way you’re disrespecting Olivia.”
