Moves Like Jagger (Wolf Mates Book 4) by Dakota Cassidy Read Free Book Online Page A

but for the time being, I just need someone to help field calls, soothe patients, be the calm in the middle of the storm.”
    She gave him a skeptical glance. “There’s a catch here, isn’t there? Are you going to pay me in ketchup packets? Because a girl needs to bring home the bacon in a can with six mouths to feed.”
    “I was thinking Skipper heads, but if it’s ketchup you want…”
    Her head fell back on her shoulders as she laughed again. “Sold!”
    “Good enough. So I’d ask you to invite me in, but we have an early wake-up tomorrow. I have to head out to Hector’s. He’s convinced one of his rabbits is under the weather. Can I pick you up at seven?”
    “Absolutely.”
    “Perfect. So I totally think we should seal the deal with a kiss.”
    “Now, Dr. Dubrov, is it wise to mix business with pleasure?”
    “It definitely is. It’s in the Hippocratic Oath and everything.”
    “Well, we can’t go defying a perfectly good oath, can we? It’s like breaking a cardinal rule or something.”
    Wrapping a long arm around her waist, Jagger attempted to pull her closer, the armrest firmly between them. She helped by leaning into him, holding her breath in anticipation.
    Cupping the side of his face, Viv almost whimpered as his mouth touched hers, the thrill of his flesh meeting hers exhilarating—for a mere blip of a moment, before his phone rang.
    Again.
    Jagger huffed out a breath of aggravated air as he let her go and reached for his phone in the pocket of his shirt. “It’s like the universe is conspiring against us.”
    Viv sighed with frustration that matched his. “It’s okay. I have to get inside anyway. The boys haven’t had dinner yet, and I need to be up bright and early for tomorrow.”
    Popping the door open, she slid out and turned to wave and smile at him. “Thanks again for tonight. See you tomorrow morning.”
    Making her way through the snow, she had to keep herself from hopping up the steps like she’d just won the lottery, squeeing all the way.
    As she turned the key in the lock, she pushed the door open and turned around to see Jagger wave at her before backing the van up and driving away.
    And that was when she finally breathed again, entering the cottage with a huge grin on her lips.
    The boys circled her ankles in yowling anticipation of their missed dinner, winding and weaving as she dropped her purse on the counter and headed for the small pantry housing their food.
    Grabbing cans and dry food, Viv grinned down at the swarm of her furbabies, anxiously awaiting their dinner. “Well, boys, looks like mommy got herself a gig.”
    With an amazingly hot, decent guy.
    Poverty didn’t suck as much today as it had yesterday.

Chapter 5
    J agger sipped his coffee and smiled while thinking about Viv.
    Again.
    It had to be at least the hundredth time he’d done so since yesterday, but he’d lost count.
    As the sun rose over his view of Cedar Glen from his kitchen window, the pine trees surrounding his cabin capped with white snow and a hearty frost on the windowpanes, he experienced that deep sense of satisfaction that had become familiar since he’d picked up stakes and moved here.
    He’d missed country living. New York had been great, exciting, full of life, sound and culture, but at thirty-seven, he was looking for a quieter way of living now, something closer to his roots in Alaska.
    Add Viv to the picture, and he was feeling pretty damn good.
    He’d woken up this morning, Scar snoring in his face, to find he was a little more than stoked about seeing her again today.
    And not just because she’d accepted his offer to help with his budding mobile vet practice.
    It was because he genuinely liked her, was wildly attracted to her, wanted to know how a professed rich kid like her had become so grounded.
    And then there was everything else. Her soft hair brushing against his cheek as they were so aggravatingly disrupted each time he got within a hairsbreadth of kissing those