Page 101 of Daddy's Wild Girl

Not that he wasn’t drool-worthy. He was definitely that and more.

However, she didn’t want him to know that she thought him drool-worthy.

When he turned away, though, she definitely wiped at her mouth.

Just in case.

“I should come too,” Hayes said. “We’ll have to be thirty minutes, forty tops.”

“What? No!” She hadn’t been out of the house at all these last few days. She had cabin fever and a measly thirty minutes of running wouldn’t solve the problem. “I need to go for longer.”

They shared a look.

“Come on, after the first part of the run, then we’ll come back past here and run up and down the block while you take the shepherd’s pie out,” Corbin suggested.

“Fine,” Hayes grumbled.

As they ran backtoward her house, she knew for sure that thirty minutes wasn’t going to cut it. Her body wasn’t strained yet, her muscles weren’t burning, and she wasn’t panting for air.

She hadn’t pushed her body to the point that she’d be able to collapse into bed tonight. To where her mind would actually quieten.

“I’ll be ten minutes,” Hayes ordered.

Corbin nodded. “We’ll run up a few blocks, then come back and get you.”

“I’ll be ten minutes, tops.”

As soon as he hit the stairs to her house, she was ready to go again, running past Corbin. “Come on! Let’s go!”

She had to get those good endorphins flowing. She needed the adrenaline boost.

“Hey, wait up, Bebe.”

She grinned and pushed herself to go a bit faster.

“Bebe, you need to stay with me,” Corbin commanded.

Damn. How did he get so close to her so quickly?

“Remember the rules?”

Oh. Crap.

She slowed slightly and turned her head to look up at him. “But you’re right here beside me.”

He shot her a look. “You ran off.”

“I forgot,” she said with a grimace. “Sorry, got carried away.”

“Well, just remember next—shit!”

Bebe let out a small scream as someone rushed out at them from a dark driveway that ran between two of the houses. It was there to provide access to the houses behind them.

The enormous person was dressed all in black, and there was something over his face that obscured it. But she couldn’t quite figure out what.

Panic had her freezing, unsure of what to do.

And then she saw the knife. And she realized he was about to stab Corbin.

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