Most Eligible Billionaire by Annika Martin EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Annika Martin
- ISBN: 978-1723080852
- Language: English
- Genre: Literary Fiction
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Vicky
I’M SMUGGLING a tiny white dog named Smuckers into a
Manhattan hospital to see his owner, Bernadette Locke.
Thanks to a standing appointment at a chandelier-draped dog
salon on Fifth Avenue run by a woman who ostensibly loves
dogs but might secretly hate them, Smuckers’s facial fur is
blow-dried into such an intense puff of white that his eager
black eyes and wee raisin of a nose seem to float in a cloud.
There are three things to know about Bernadette: She’s the
meanest woman I ever met. She believes I’m some kind of dog
whisperer who can read Smuckers’s mind. (I can’t.) And she’s
dying. Alone.
The people in her condo building will probably be glad to
hear of her passing. I don’t know what she did to earn their
hatred. That’s probably for the best.
Bernadette has a son out there somewhere, but even he
seems to have washed his hands of her. There is a photo of the
son on Bernadette’s cracked fireplace mantel, a toddler with a
scowly little dent between fierce blue eyes. Surrounded by
people, the little boy manages somehow to look utterly alone.
Back when Bernadette got her terminal diagnosis, I asked
her if she’d told her son and whether he might finally come to
visit. She brushed off the question with a contemptuous wave
of her hand—Bernadette’s favorite way of responding to pretty
much anything you say is a contemptuous hand wave. He
won’t be coming, I assure you.
I can’t believe he wouldn’t visit her, even now. It’s the
ultimate dick move. Your mother is dying alone, jackass!
Anyway, put all of that in a pot and stir it and you have the
strange soup of me clicking past a guard, smiling brightly—
and hopefully dazzlingly—enough that he doesn’t notice the
squirmy bulge in my oversized purse.
Smuckers is a Maltese, which is a toy dog that’s
outrageously cute. And Smuckers is the cutest of the cute.
Smuckers and Bernadette Locke made a notorious pair out
on the sidewalk in the Upper West Side neighborhood where
my little sister and I have our very sweet apartment-sitting gig.
I remember them well. Smuckers would attract people with
his insane fluff-ball cuteness, but as the hapless victim drew
near Bernadette would say something insulting. Kind of like
the human equivalent of a Venus flytrap, where the fly is
attracted to the beauty of the flower only to be mercilessly
crushed.
Locals learned to stay away from the two of them. I tried
—I really did.
Yet here I am, slipping down another chillingly bright
hospital hallway, smuggling the little dog in for the third time
in two weeks. It’s not on my top ten list of things I want to do
with my day. Not even on my top hundred, but Smuckers is
Bernadette’s only true friend. And I know what it’s like to be
hated and alone.
I know that when you’re hated, you sometimes act like you
don’t care as a survival method.
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