Kiss My Giraffe (Boys of the Bayou Gone Wild)

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Enemies to friends to almost lovers...then back to kind-of enemies...to lovers. For a guy who wanted to keep things simple this is anything but.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fiona knew Knox would be mad when she moved in next door.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And not because she brought a collection of wild animals with her.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And she was right.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So she intended to leave him alone. Mostly.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>he's </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>not ignoring </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>her</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. He's actively working to send her and her ridiculous menagerie (rude) right back out of town</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Still as hard as she tries it's impossible to stop thinking about the small town grump's long hair and tattoos and that </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>mouth</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not the one that's almost always set in a grim line and says things like you got a permit for that?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nope the one that kisses her like she's everything he's ever wanted and says very dirty things in her ear. And sweet protective supportive things. Sometimes. Accidentally. When she catches him off-guard.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The one that also says he only wants a long-distance fling with her. Nothing serious. And that he never dates women he sees every day. Like his </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>neighbor</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Well fine. If he doesn't want her-and her unbelievable past and that-can't-be-real future-then she doesn't want him either. He can just kiss her...giraffe. (Yeah she actually has a couple of those.)</span></p><p> </p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now she just needs to convince her heart to give him up.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>