Make It Count (25 page)

Authors: Megan Erickson

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BOOK: Make It Count

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Alec slung an arm around Kat’s shoulders. “All right, well, we’ll leave you alone with your cat, then. Let us know if you need anything.” They walked downstairs, Cam at their heels. “I’m glad it’s not a bear,” he muttered.

Max stood in the doorway of his room, staring at the cat on his bed. He seemed right at home, lounging on the worn gray comforter.

“What’re you going to name him?” A musical voice said beside him, and he looked down to Lea at his side. Her head barely came up to his armpit as she gazed at the cat.

Max looked around his room, at the shelf that held his favorite hockey stick and the game puck he won when he called into a radio show and had to belch the Ocean City Devils’ fight song.

Then his eyes fell back on the cat. His scarred, chipped-tooth cat. “Wayne.”

Lea’s head tilted, and a soft lock of hair brushed his bicep. “Wayne?”

He nodded. “Yeah, after the hockey player Wayne Gretzky. The cat’s kind of . . .” he almost said
scarred
but he remembered Lea’s limp, her lingering injury from a childhood car crash, and he stopped short. “He seems tough. You can take one look at him and see he’s won his fair share of fights.”

Lea pursed those lips, the ones he’d stared at many times, all lush and full with a cupid’s bow. Her eyes searched his and he didn’t know what she was looking for.

Then she hummed in the back of her throat and her hand fluttered at the thigh of her left leg. “Guess so,” she said quietly. Then she turned and peered at him from over her shoulder as she left his bedroom. “I’ll leave you two alone, since you have some ‘getting to know you’ to do.”

Then, with a quick smile, she was gone.

Max turned to Wayne, whose eyes shifted from the door back to Max. “What you think of her, buddy?”

Wayne licked his lips, and Max laughed. “Yeah, me too.”

About the Author

MEGAN ERICKSON grew up in a family that averages 5’3” on a good day and started writing to create characters who could reach the top kitchen shelf.

She’s got a couple of tattoos, has a thing for gladiators and has been called a crazy cat lady. After working as a journalist for years, she decided she liked creating her own endings better and switched back to fiction.

She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two kids and two cats. And no, she still can’t reach the stupid top shelf.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Make It Right
copyright © 2014 by Megan Erickson.

MAKE IT COUNT.
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EPub Edition JUNE 2014 ISBN: 9780062353399

Print Edition ISBN: 9780062353412

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