Total pages in book: 149
Estimated words: 147967 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 740(@200wpm)___ 592(@250wpm)___ 493(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 147967 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 740(@200wpm)___ 592(@250wpm)___ 493(@300wpm)
But then he takes a job for a friend and he meets her.
Maya puts up walls to stop people from getting close to her.
But that is almost impossible around Matthieu.
She has a lot going on and she absolutely cannot fall for the gorgeous, sexy bodyguard.
Matthieu knows that Maya needs a break from everything that life keeps throwing at her.
But will he be able to gain enough of her trust for her to let him in?
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1
Wow, that was one large, lazy dog.
Maya couldn’t help but stare in shock as a woman with wavy dark hair attempted to carry an enormous dog into her yoga studio.
Considering the dog looked like it weighed as much as she did, she wasn’t having much luck.
The dark-haired woman straightened from where she’d been trying to pick the huge dog off the floor and blew out a deep breath, brushing back strands of her hair before stretching out her back.
“Darn it, Mr. Fluffy. You cannot just lie in the doorway. You’re a fire hazard.” The woman moved her hands to her curvy hips as she glared down at the dog. “I’m gonna count to three and you gotta get out of the way. Other people want to come inside. One.”
The dog flopped his head onto the floor.
Oh man.
That dog did not look like he was going to move.
The woman let out another deep sigh. “Do I have to go get Spike? He will not be happy if he has to come down here to move you.”
Who was Spike? Her boyfriend? And who was she? She must be a new member of Maya’s class since she hadn’t seen her before.
“Millie? What’s going on?” Livvy moved through the doorway, stepping over the enormous dog. “What’s Mr. Fluffy doing here?”
“He’s here for yoga, of course,” Millie said.
As Maya looked closer, she saw that the other woman’s yoga pants actually had images of dinosaurs on them. Oh, those were cute. She was also wearing a white sleeveless top with more dinosaurs in different exercise poses.
Oh, that was cute.
“What is going on here? Why is there a big dog in the way?” a nasally voice asked.
Great. They were here.
Every time she taught this class; she prayed they wouldn’t turn up. Maya really didn’t know why Emily, Regan, and Jenni kept signing up for this class.
They didn’t like Maya and Maya certainly didn’t like them. But they kept coming back. Maybe it was just so they could complain about everything in those obnoxious voices.
Whatever.
The main reason she’d taken this job was because of the puppy yoga class. She’d heard that the puppies being used were way too young to be separated from their mamas. And that there no were regulations, no proper care for the animals.
When you couldn’t make a difference from the outside, sometimes you had to infiltrate from the inside.
Unfortunately, she had yet to make any headway into her investigation because her boss always taught the puppy yoga class. And he didn’t care about exploiting sweet, innocent puppies.
It was a shame that her boss sucked because Maya actually liked teaching yoga. As long as she didn’t have to teach it to jerks.
Like Emily and her friends.
Now, if her class was filled with people like Livvy, then she’d be happy.
She’d met Livvy when she was attacked by an asshole. Maya had seen her fighting him off as she’d been walking past.
And there was no way she could ignore a woman being hurt. Maya hated people who preyed on those smaller and weaker than them.
She’d helped Livvy and in the process she’d actually made a friend. Maya didn’t have many friends.
They’d gone to a few self-defense classes together and Livvy tried to get to one of Maya’s yoga classes at least once a week. It wasn’t always that easy for her, though. She had three boys she was raising, owned a business, and had one sexy as heck man to keep happy.
Livvy and Sav had recently gotten engaged and Maya was so happy for her friend, even though she’d felt a weird pang of sadness.
Maybe because she’d never really had a proper relationship. Men only seemed to want to use her or hurt her.
“I’m so sorry,” Millie said. “When he decides he wants to lie down, well, there’s not much that can move him. Unless someone has any sausage?”
“Ew,” Jenni ‘with an i’ said. “Why would we have any sausage?”
“And why would you bring him if he’s like this? So disgusting,” Regan sneered. She was the third part of the bitchy besties.
Now that was uncalled for.
Her anger surged.
Do not turn your feelings into felonies.
Do not.
Lord, it was hard, though.
“I don’t know, you girls look as though you like a bit of sausage. Might even put you in a better mood,” Millie told them, her hands on her hips.
Oh, Maya liked her.
Livvy put her hand over her mouth, but everyone heard her giggle. And several of the other women who were already in the room laughed as well.
The bitchy besties weren’t well liked.
“What did you just say to us?” Regan gasped.
“All right, we have to start class now. Can everyone get inside?” Maya asked, deciding to interrupt before things kicked off.
“We will,” Emily sneered. “As soon as this mutt gets out of the way.” She drew back her leg as though she was going to kick Mr. Fluffy.