Page 23 of Purrfectly Kissed

Okay, fine. Maybe she had the hots for a certain sexy Bear. Her inner Tiger chuffed, and she rolled her eyes. The silly feline had more than the hots for the big sexy Bear. She wanted to rub her scent all over him, roll over on all fours so he could mount her, and get started making cubs.

Eeeeek!

Prrrrrrr.

“Fine. Maybe I am sort of attracted to him,” She admitted under Kylie’s emerald stare.

“Look, I didn’t even realize it until today,” Jessica said and shrugged, new hurt winding its way through her veins.

“Not that it matters. He wants to befriends.”

“What? Oh that is sometoro excretio,” Kylie replied, using the Latin for bullshit.

“I’ll be fine, Ky,” Jess started.

“No way. Let’s finish locking the doors, then we can head upstairs for some margs and snacks. I got just the tequila to make you start talking, girl, and you are gonna tell me everything,” Kylie said, nodding and squinting her eyes at Jess.

All those Southern no nonsense mannerisms she had made Jess smile despite the heartache. She was right. Jessica could use some girl time.

A little while later, both women were in Kylie’s apartment, since she wanted to show Jess more of her new samples. And she was the one with the tequila.

“Is this spiked?” Jessica asked.

“Just a littlemagibrewadded. I don’t want us sauced, but let’s face it. We need to let our hair down,” Kylie said.

Jess had made a pit stop at her apartment, where she grabbed a little tray of cheese cubes, rosemary crackers, sliced salami, and slivers of fresh jalapeno peppers. A perfect snack to go with some classic margaritas and girl talk.

It had taken them an hour to close up the store and was now nearing six o’clock. Tequila, snacks, and some girl time were a perfect way to end what had been, in all honesty, a really confusing day.

“Okay, start at the beginning,” Kylie instructed, popping a loaded cracker in her mouth.

She was a good friend. Kind and honest. Much nicer than many of the other she-Cats who’d come running to the Pride House earlier that day to meet the famous matchmaker.

If only Jessica could have been a fly on the wall during those meetings. From what Elissa had told her, the women had not been thrilled with Uncle Uzzi’s advice. The old Witch had told the other females they’d needed to grow as people before they thought about getting mates.

The very idea made Jessica chuckle, and she made a mental note to send the elderly Witch a box of Elissa’s brownies as thanks.

“So, after that whole awkwardness, what then?” Kylie asked.

“Well, he took me to this really good sushi restaurant in Maccon City. It’s calledRoll Over.”

“That’s like a two hour drive, isn’t it?” Kylie asked with a mouthful of cheese, so it sounded more likethatliketwoourdriveinnit.

Good thing Jessica spoke fluentgirl-with-food-in-mouth.

“Yeah, and with traffic, it took longer.”

“So, what did you do on the way?”

“We talked.”

“You talked?”

“What else could we do while he was driving, you pervert?”

Jessica tossed a cracker at Kylie, but she just caught it and giggled as she shoved it in her mouth.

“It’s crazy, but I never really had a conversation with him before. Did you know male Black Bears in the wild weigh about five to six-hundred pounds and Shifters are almost double that? His Bear is over nine hundred pounds,” Jessica said.

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