Of course, while I looked like a gluttonous chipmunk in my sexy hospital gown, Jason was wearing slacks and a light blue polo shirt that was tight enough to make it obvious just how much time he must have spent at the gym. His hair had that just-got-out-of-bed look it always seemed to, and that casual attitude that was so infuriating just made him seem cooler.
Grrrrr.
Finally, I swallowed.
“Haven’t you ever heard of knocking?” I tried again.
“I was like, eighty percent sure that at some point you were going to choke trying to swallow that bite,” Jason replied. “If you had, then I would have saved your life. Again.”
“Yeah, speaking of that, where were you this time?” I asked. Jason laughed.
“I guess I can’t really call myself a journalist when a vet cracked open the case I was working, can I?”
“What are you doing here, anyway?”
“Being a journalist. I love this state. In New York there’s no way they’d just let me in to see you just by asking and saying I was a friend.”
“Oh, so you’re here to grill me about what happened, then?” I asked.
“Well, not exactly. I was wondering if when you get out of here you wanted to tell me all about it – or about anything else – over dinner.”
Wait, was Jason Black seriously asking me out to dinner? Like, as in, on a date? But he was so… infuriating.
“Yes,” I heard my mouth say. “Yeah, sure.”
What on earth was wrong with me? I’d just agreed to go on a date with Jason Black. Oh, boy.
Also by Samantha Silver
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Samantha Silver lives in Oregon with her long-time boyfriend, her Jack Russell terrier named Kilo, two cats who like to help her type by lying across the keyboard, and the occasional foster. When she’s not playing mom to all these animals, Samantha is either writing the mysteries she loves, volunteering at the local animal shelter, or watching Netflix.
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