Page 783 of Love Bites

“Yeah. Uh… you sure you want to do this now?”

“I’m sure. What’s up?” She said the words as if she hadn’t chomped his ear off just seconds ago.

“You said to read it.”

“That’s right.”

“And I did.”

“Perfect!” she exclaimed as if the book held some secret to life.

“But it doesn’t make any sense.”

“What do you mean?”

Eagan turned to face the wall even though that wouldn’t keep Bailey from overhearing the conversation.

“All it is, is page after page of lists. Random things and amounts. Foods, brand names, things like that. And dates. And addresses. There’s no rhyme to it. It’s just an eternity long list.”

“Ahh,” Destiny said.

“Ah?”

“You read the wrong book.”

Eagan frowned. “Wrong book?”

“Or maybe the right one. I can’t be sure.”

A whimper passed through the line.

“Destiny, that makes no sense.” His voice rose with frustration.

“Because you read thewronggoddamnMOTHERFUCKINGBOOK!” And then another agony-induced scream ripped through the phone.

“Okay, okay.” Eagan tried for a placating tone. “I’ll just, you know, read all the books that I find that aren’t mine and hope one of them makes sense.”

“Yeah,” she snapped. “You do that.” And then the line clicked dead.

Eagan looked at the phone, wondering if that had really just happened. Destiny was a sweet female. She’d never raised her voice even once when she’d stayed at the lodge.

“A small cat having wolf babies,” Bailey murmured. “That has to hurt.”

Eagan turned to look at her. Bailey had a point. Destiny wasn’t like the cats around the lodge. She was a wild species, but definitely not considered large.

“Bethany is human and she had a panther baby. I don’t remember her turning murderous.”

Bailey laughed, her short brown curls bouncing with her movement. “You weren’t there for the delivery. Should’ve seen Doc Davis. She had nail marks the whole length of her arms.”

Eagan’s eyes peeled wide. “Doc let a human mark her up?”

Bailey shrugged, pushing the peach cobbler into the oven. “She’s all about patient care. Plus, I think she felt sorry for her.”

Eagan shook his head. He didn’t know the first thing about females having young. Probably would never learn either.

He handed the phone to Bailey. “Take this back to Layna, would you?”

“Sure thing, boss.”

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