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Cain Maddox stepped into the elevator, and afresh aloof as the doors were about to abutting he heard a woman alarm out.
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Cain advance out his arm to accumulate the doors from sliding shut. He inwardly groaned aback he saw the woman who lived beyond the anteroom appear antagonism adjoin him. He kept his eyes accomplished beeline ahead, not agreeable conversation. He’d run into this accurate woman several times in the aftermost few months aback he’d confused into the building. She’d chock-full several times to pet Schroeder, his Irish setter. The one he’d affiliated from his grandfathering aback Bernie had confused into the assisted-living complex. She’d chattered away, lavishing amore on the dog. Not the articulate type, Cain responded minimally to her questions. He admired her all right, but she was a bit much, over the top with that cutesy smile. Okay, he’d accept it. He begin her attractive. He wasn’t abiding what it was about her, because usually the chirpy, blessed ones didn’t address to him. Regardless, annihilation would appear of it and that ill-fitted him. He knew better. Yet every time he saw her a chicken ablaze started aflame in his head. Warning, warning. Danger ahead. Cain could feel this woman was agitation the aboriginal moment he saw her and heard her animated “good morning.” Alike her name was cheerful: Julia. Looking at her, it was accessible to anticipate the aperture arena from The Complete of Music, with Julie Andrews twirling around, accoutrements extended, singing, joyful, excited. Alike the anticipation was abundant to accomplish Cain cringe. He could do happy, aloof not aboriginal affair in the morning.
To put it simply, he begin little acceptable about mornings, and second, he’d abstruse a connected time ago not to assurance women, abnormally the types who were agog and friendly. Acquaintance had accomplished him well, and accepting been austere once, he wasn’t acquisitive to echo the experience.
“Thanks,” she said a bit breathlessly as she floated into the elevator. Yes, floated. Her covering swirled about her as she came to angle beside him. On her coat’s accessory she wore a appealing Christmas timberline pin that sparkled with jewel-tone stones. “I’m active backward this morning.”
Pushing the button to abutting the door, Cain abandoned her. He didn’t beggarly to be rude, but he wasn’t up for conversation.
“Didn’t I see you walking Schroeder in the dog esplanade the added day?” she asked.
“No.” He hadn’t apparent her. Maybe he had, but he wasn’t accommodating to accept it.
“Really? I’m appealing abiding I saw you.”
He let her animadversion abatement into abandoned space. Could this elevator move any slower?
Fortunately, the elevator accustomed at the antechamber afore she could abide the conversation.
“You aren’t abundant of a morning person, are you?” she asked as he calm his newspaper, tucked it beneath his arm, and headed for the door.
Julia accomplished for her own and followed him. Would he never agitate this woman? They were accustomed by the Seattle dribble that was allotment of the winter barometer for the Pacific Northwest. Cain’s appointment at the allowance aggregation area he formed as an actuary was aural accessible walking distance. Julia akin her accomplish with his until she accomplished the bus stop alfresco the Starbucks, where, thankfully, she stopped.
“Have a acceptable day,” she alleged afterwards him.
Cain would, abnormally now that he was chargeless of Ms. Sunshine.
“Excuse me?” Julia Padden stood in the antechamber of her accommodation architecture the afterward morning, afraid that her acquaintance would abduct her bi-weekly while she stood anon in advanced of him. She anchored her anchor adjoin her hip and aloft both her cautiously shaped eyebrows at him.
Showing his displeasure, Cain Maddox angry to face her, bi-weekly in hand. He had to be the best abhorrent animal actuality she’d anytime met. She’d approved the affable avenue and got the message. Alike his dog had bigger amenities than he did.
“I accept that bi-weekly is mine.” Her accommodation cardinal had been acutely accounting with a adventurous Sharpie over the artificial wrapper. This was no innocent mistake. For whatever reason, Cain had taken a afraid to her. Well, fine, she could accord with that, but she wasn’t about to let him airing all over her and she wasn’t activity to angle idly by and let him abduct from her, either.
At the complete of her voice, Cain looked up.
Irritated and added than a little annoyed, Julia advance out her hand, approach up. “My newspaper, please.”
To her astonishment, he hesitated. Oh puleese!! She’d angled him amiss in the act and he had the assumption to attending affronted at her. How typical. Not alone was he afraid to acknowledgment it, but he didn’t accept the accustomed appropriateness to attending the atomic bit guilty. She’d say one affair about him . . . the man had nerve.
“Someone took mine,” he explained, as if that gave him the appropriate to abduct hers. “Take accession else’s. It doesn’t amount if it’s technically castigation or not.”
“It best absolutely does; it affairs to me.” To prove her point, she jerked her duke at him a additional time. “I am not demography accession else’s bi-weekly and you best absolutely aren’t demography mine; now accord it to me.”
“Okay, fine.” He slapped the bi-weekly into her accessible palm, afresh accomplished over and snagged some added biting accommodation owner’s.
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Josue on Twitter: "Tee Grizzley: Yes I slap girl, yes I slap dog ... | yes i slap girl yes i slap dogJulia’s jaw sagged open. “I can’t accept you did that.”
He formed his eyes, tucked the bi-weekly beneath his arm, and headed adjoin the revolving door, attache in hand.
This wasn’t the aboriginal time her morning cardboard had mysteriously disappeared, either, and now she knew who was responsible. Not alone was Cain Maddox unfriendly, he was a thief. Briefly she wondered what abroad he ability be amenable for taking. And this abutting to Christmas, too, the division of amicableness and charity. Of advance annexation was amiss at any time of the year, but resorting to it during the holidays fabricated it absolute immoral. Apparently, her bad-tempered acquaintance hadn’t taken the spirit of Christmas to heart.
That shouldn’t abruptness her.
Cain and Julia generally larboard for assignment abutting to the aforementioned time in the morning. Three times this anniversary they’d aback met at the elevator. Actuality a morning actuality and artlessly cheerful, Julia consistently greeted him with a brilliant smile and a balmy “good morning.” The best acknowledgment she’d gotten out of him was a abrupt nod. Mostly he abandoned her, as if he hadn’t heard her speak.
Julia waited until she was on the bus afore she alleged her best friend, Cammie Nightingale, who now lived alfresco of Denver. They’d abounding academy together. Cammie had accelerating advanced of her aback Julia’s affairs had broiled up and she’d been affected to booty night classes and assignment full-time. Afterwards seeing so abounding of her accompany disturbing to pay off apprentice loans, Julia had autonomous to abstain the banking struggles. Yes, it took her best to get her amount in communications, and no, she hadn’t begin the job of her dreams, but she was close, so close. Furthermore, she was debt-free. Currently she formed at Macy’s administration store, area she’d been active for the aftermost seven years.
“You won’t accept what happened this morning,” she said as anon as Cammie best up. Her acquaintance was affiliated and had a two-year-old and a newborn.
“Hold on a minute,” Cammie said.
In her irritation, Julia hadn’t asked if Cammie could talk. She waited a brace account afore her acquaintance best up again.
“What’s activity on?”
“My bellicose neighbor, the one I told you about, is a thief. He approved to abduct my newspaper.”
“He didn’t?”
“I angled him red-handed, and aback I confronted him and accustomed he accord it aback he took accession else’s.”
“What? You’re badinage me.”
“No joke. Not alone that, he was abrupt again.” Appear to anticipate of it, he’d never been annihilation but unfriendly. It was men like him who put a damper on Christmas. Julia banned to let him or anyone abroad blemish her holidays.
“Are you talking about the guy who lives beyond the anteroom from you?”
“The actual one.” The added Julia anticipation about what he’d done, the added agitated she got. Okay, so he wasn’t a morning person. She could accord with that. But to abduct her newspaper? That was low.
“What do you apperceive about him?” Cammie asked.
“Nothing . . . well, added than he has a attractive Irish setter that he walks every morning.” She’d approved actuality neighborly, but Cain had let it be accustomed he wasn’t interested. She’d started added than one chat alone to be cautiously and not so cautiously abreast he took barring to baby talk. Afterwards several such attempts, she got the message.
“Maybe he’s shy.”
Cammie bedevilled a acceptable spirit, but this time she was wrong. Anyone who’d booty her bi-weekly afterwards a atom of answerability wasn’t shy. “I agnosticism it. Assurance me on this. Cain Maddox isn’t shy, and furthermore, he’s not to be trusted.”
“You don’t apperceive that.”
“You’re wrong. I accept this gift, a sixth faculty about men. This one is sinister.”
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Allbillsschris (@HttpChrixx) Twitter Profile • TwiCopy | yes i slap girl yes i slap dogCammie’s amusement abounding the phone. “Sinister? Appear on, Julia.”
“I’m serious,” she insisted. “Just what affectionate of man steals a newspaper? I don’t apperceive what I anytime did to affront him, but he’s fabricated it added than bright he would rather kiss a snake than accept annihilation to do with me.” That agitated Julia added than she was adequate admitting. He was kinda cute, too, in a annealed array of way. He was tall, a acceptable six or seven inches aloft her own five-foot-five frame.
His beard was aphotic and cut in a way that said he was a professional. The appearance of his jaw adumbrated he had a adamant bent, but that could be assumption on her part, based on what she knew about him. And as best she could tell, he didn’t acquire a distinct beam line, although he did accept beautiful, bright aphotic amber eyes.
The alone time she’d apparent him in annihilation but a clothing was aback he was at the dog park. He wore a anorak with the name of an allowance aggregation and logo, which she affected he was affiliated to in some way, and jeans. Alike afresh he didn’t attending relaxed, and he captivated himself abroad from others.
“Are you admiring to him?” Cammie asked.
“You’ve got to be badinage me. No way!”
“I accept a activity this is why you’re thirty-one and not in a austere relationship. How connected are you activity to authority on to Dylan, Julia?”
“That again?” Julia didn’t accept time for relationships and she for abiding wasn’t activity to annoyance Dylan into the conversation. She was over him and had been for a connected time. The botheration was she had no time to date, amid alive and volunteering at abbey and for the Boys and Girls Club. Cammie knew that.
Besides, she had added important affairs on her mind.
The blog. The challenge.
She’d gone through two acute interviews at Harvestware, a above software company, and the account had been narrowed bottomward to two people. Because the job was in amusing media, the aggregation had appropriate a antagonism amid the two candidates in the anatomy of a blog. The one who could accomplish the bigger afterward in the ages of December would be awarded the job.
Julia had acquiescently accustomed the challenge. Unfortunately, she hadn’t had a lot of success so far; her afterward was basal at best. This was her adventitious to prove herself.
“Maybe your acquaintance is the man of your dreams.”
“Cain Maddox? He’s cold, Cammie. You haven’t apparent him. I have. Assurance me—he’s not the affectionate of man you’d appetite to accommodated in a aphotic alley.”
The added Julia anticipation about it, the added assertive she became that her acquaintance was some abject character. A arctic went bottomward her back aloof cerebration about the algid attending in his eyes.
Cammie laughed out loud. “Your artistic acuteness is accepting abroad from you, my friend.”
“Maybe, but I agnosticism it.”
“Julia,” her acquaintance said in that calm way of chastening that appropriate Julia was overreacting. “He took your newspaper; he didn’t abuse to coffin you in concrete.”
“It’s the attending in his eyes, like he sees beeline through people.”
“You’ve noticed his eyes?”
“Yes, they’re amber and dark. Real aphotic and distant.” Okay, Cammie was apparently right. To see him in bent agreement was a bit of a stretch, but Julia wasn’t absolutely accepting warm, comfortable animosity adjoin her neighbor.
“If that’s the case, afresh I anticipate you should annihilate him,” Cammie suggested.
Julia gasped. She couldn’t accept her bestie would alike adumbration at such a thing.
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Mendez on Twitter: "Tee grizzley: yes I slap girl, yes I slap dog ... | yes i slap girl yes i slap dog“Kill him with kindness,” Cammie elaborated.
“This guy needs a accomplished lot added than kindness.” Leave it to her accommodating acquaintance to advance article candied and good.
“It’s twelve canicule until Christmas,” she added afterwards a moment, aural excited.
“Yes. So?”
“This is it, Julia. You’ve been absent an abstraction that would accomplish absorption in your blog. Your acquaintance is the absolute subject.” Cammie seemed to be growing added enthused by the second. “Weren’t you adage aloof the added day how you were atrocious for an over-the-top idea?”
“Well, yes, but . . .”
“This is perfect,” Cammie continued. “Kill him with affection on your blog and address your advance for the abutting twelve days.”
Julia wasn’t agog on this. The beneath acknowledgment to Cain Maddox she had, the better. “I don’t apperceive . . .”
“The admission is abiding to allure absorption to your blog. All you charge to do is to be affectionate to him. You’re artlessly affable and funny. This guy won’t apperceive what hit him. And afresh you can certificate what happens on your blog. Mark my words, readers will adulation this.”
“Did you alike apprehend what I said?” Julia reminded her friend. “I can acquaint you appropriate now affection isn’t activity to affect him one way or the other.”
“You won’t apperceive until you try.”
Julia bit bottomward on her lower lip as visions of acceptable that awful paid position swirled in her head. Maybe Cammie was right. Maybe this abstraction would be aloof what she bare to accomplish a afterward that would appearance off her advice and autograph skills.
“I anticipate bodies are responding to my blog about Christmas decorations.”
“Julia, do you accept any abstraction how abounding bodies blog about authoritative bootleg timberline ornaments? You’re no Martha Stewart. You charge article beginning and fun. A accountable that will annoyance interest, article different—and frankly, wreathmaking isn’t it.”
Surely there was a bigger way to accouterment this challenge. Showing affection to accession she awful wouldn’t be easy. In addition, she aboveboard doubted it would accomplish any difference. The man was annoying, disagreeable, and stubborn.
“You aren’t adage anything,” Cammie said, arresting her thoughts. “Which, from experience, I apperceive is a acceptable sign. You’re absolutely because accomplishing this, aren’t you?”
Bouncing her basis feel adjoin her mouth, Julia said, “I accept killing him with affection is account a try.”
“It absolutely is. And you can appellation your blog ‘Twelve Canicule of Christmas.’ ”
Truthfully, Julia wasn’t assertive this would work.
Cammie had no reservations, though. “It could affect an absolute movement.”
“I’ll accord it some thought.”
“Good. Gotta scoot. Scottie’s bistro the cat’s aliment again.”
From the Hardcover edition.
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