My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian
"Of course I do. My ribs hurt for a week."
"You were so small," he mused. "You were standing there with one shoe off, staring at that dog like you were waiting for it to give you directions."
I remembered the smell of the dog. It was a heavy, sour reek—not like a wolf, but like something that was rotting while it was still alive. White foam had been dripping from its jaw, bubbling on the cobblestones. I’d been cornered. I’d lost my slipper in the mud two blocks back, and my bare foot was freezing. I had begged the dog to spare me, but it was too crazed to understand basic communication.
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