Layla was half asleep in the bay window of the library when she heard the door squeak open. She assumed it was Jax’s little sisters as they often came to hang out with her when they got home from practice, so she didn’t bother to open her eyes and look.
She rolled and stretched in the warm sunlight of the huge window. She was supposed to be working with the pups today, and while she loved pups, she really wasn’t in a place yet in life where she enjoyed spending hours with them. She knew she would someday, but she felt like she had so much more to see and learn before her maternal instincts would kick in.
Suddenly, a very familiar, very appealing, male scent filled her nostrils. Her brain took a few moments to register what that meant, but once it did, she sat straight up. To her surprise
