Adam pulled the front door open, the doorbell jangling overhead, and breathed in deep. Ahhh…coffee. Even if Kylie did nothing but make coffee for him every morning, he’d still think she was amazing.

The fact that she did so much more than that…he really felt like God had been smiling down on him when she’d shown up at the clinic all those weeks ago.

Kylie came hurrying up from the back. “Good morning!” she said cheerfully when she spotted him. “I have the coffee started.”

“I could smell it as soon as I came in.” He pulled her into his arms and nibbled on her neck. She squirmed at the contact, moaning sexily with pleasure, and he felt his dick rising to the occasion, happy for the contact. Down, boy. Not now.

He pulled back, if only to give himself some breathing room from her. “I used to think that one of my favorite smells in the world was the scent of animal and coffee together.”

“Animal?” she repeated, looking at him askance.

“Yeah, but I’ve changed my mind.” He bent back and began nuzzling her neck again, and his dick sprang right back up. “I like wildflowers more.”

“Oh, really,” she said faintly, tilting her head to the side to give him better access to her neck. “You’re a flowers kind of a guy, huh?”

“Your perfume has been driving me wild since day one,” he admitted as he breathed in her unique scent. “I even thought about telling you that I was allergic to it, because my self-control was struggling with the idea that I had to keep my hands to myself.”

She looped her hands around his neck and sent him a saucy grin. “Hmmm…good to know…I may just have to use this information at a future date.”

He rubbed his stubble against her neck, and she collapsed with laughter against him. “Be kind to me,” he murmured in her ear. “It’s been…a long dry spell. A man can only take so much.”

She pulled back and bit her lower lip as she looked up at him through her eyelashes. “Something else I will keep in mind…”

The neanderthal in him wanted to throw her over his shoulder and cart her back to her place and make love to her all day and if he was lucky, all night, but he barely restrained himself.

Barely.

He had a full load of patients today, all here in the clinic, which meant that he got to spend the day around Kylie. He wasn’t sure if this was the best thing that had ever happened to him, or pure torture. Keeping his hands to himself in front of the clients was gonna be a real test of self-restraint.

Speaking of, he needed to get to work. He reluctantly moved away from Kylie and headed to the back where he grabbed a mug off the shelf. “Today’s the last day of therapy camp using the school schedule,” he said over his shoulder as he poured himself a cup of coffee. “Then I have a two-week break, then we start summer camp. I was thinking you might have fun coming over today and helping out with it. You’ll love these kids – they’re a real handful but boy, are they sweet.”

“Oh, that sounds like so much fun!” Kylie said excitedly, shooting him one of her 100-watt grins. “I’d love to. Are you thinking we’ll close the clinic again so I can come with you?”

“Yeah, one afternoon won’t kill anyone,” he said as he went to work checking on the patients, barking and meowing their hellos to him. “The kids are gonna think you’re the best thing since sliced bread.”

“Well, I can’t wait,” Kylie said happily, and then headed back up front to get to work.

Adam found himself whistling a tuneless song as he checked the animals over. When was the last time he’d been this happy? He couldn’t remember. Forever, it seemed like.

Life couldn’t get much better than this.