If anything could make a tall, tousle-haired, ripped fireman even more attractive, it was a dog. Even though Josh kept claiming he had no interest in keeping the mutt, Suzanne could tell he was completely full of it.
Suzanne loved Stargazer Beach and always kept beach gear in her car. While Josh was racing Snowball across the sand toward the ocean, she changed into a bikini top and cutoff shorts. She dug around in her gym bag for a small bottle of shampoo and ran after them.
But the fun, easy task she’d envisioned went completely off the rails the second Snowball caught sight of the water. The dog was hilariously afraid of the incoming waves. She barked at the line of foam skimming toward her across the sand, then chased it as it receded into the ocean.
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