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already spoken for.”
    He preened as Carly nipped his chin and Ling scoffed.
    She wasn't entirely convinced. “Isn’t the place run by a snake though? You know I don’t like snakes; they tend to be a little… terrifying.”
    Snake shifters tended to be cruel at the best of times; they had a way of looking right through you that Ling hated. Not to mention how quick to violence they were.
    “Marcus is a good guy,” Jackson told her.
    Ling looked at him in surprise; the surly wolf shifter rarely had anything good to say about anyone, other than Carly, of course.
    Carly nodded in agreement. “He is; besides, he mostly just stays in his office. When he does come out, he only talks about work, and even then he doesn’t say much. You’ll barely even notice he’s there.”
    The fox shifter could see the internal struggle on her friend’s face, and decided she needed a little push. “Come on, you can’t stay around the house and mope all day, you need a job. Unless you’re planning on giving in to your mom and joining the Country Club.”
    Ling flashed her a look of horror, and Carly almost giggled. For the icing on the cake, she just needed to say one last thing, “Just think, if you did join the Country Club, you and your mom could play tennis with each other every day…”
    The red panda cried out in alarm. No, she refused to turn into her mother! She leapt off the bed. “You’re right, let me get my purse and we can…”
    Carly sucked in a breath. “Don’t you think you should…ummm…well…”
    “Shower first,” supplied Jackson.
    Ling frowned. Yeah, okay, maybe it had been a couple of days. “Fine, I’ll take a shower.”
    Carly smiled in agreement. “And also you should probably… erm…”
    “Brush your teeth,” suggested Jackson.
    Ling held up a hand to her mouth and breathed. She coughed. “Yep, good call on that.”
    Carly looked at her awkwardly. “Plus, I think it would be best if…”
    “You wore some clothes that didn’t have pizza stains all over them,” interrupted Jackson.
    Carly groaned and pushed off him, giving him the stink eye. “Alright, I think we’ve helped her enough for today. Ling, sweetie, we’re gonna go, and I’ll see you at the agency in what, a couple of hours?”
    Ling nodded. Carly grabbed a couple of pastries for the road, and Ling watched her curvy figure sway out of the room with Jackson’s muscled frame lumbering after her. It pained her to admit it, but she was really jealous of her best friend. Not in that she actually wanted Jackson. Yeuch! That thought made her want to retch, but she would give anything to meet her true mate... or even just a decent guy.
    She shook her head, getting back to the matter at hand. Surely she didn’t look that bad… She faced the mirror and almost shrieked in shock at the bedraggled woman staring back. Yeesh, how the heck had she let things get this bad? Over an ungrateful bastard like Myron, no less!
    She ran to the bathroom and quickly flipped on the shower. Alright, so she didn’t want to work at the bail bond agency, but so what? She’d worked jobs she didn’t like before, and she could do it again.
    Her panda yipped in encouragement. She was determined to make the most of it. Perhaps this time she just needed to avoid falling in love with her boss.
     

Chapter Six
    Ling smoothed down her dress and surveyed the outside of the Blau Bail Bond Agency. It was pretty shabby looking, and it wasn’t exactly in a great part of town.
    She chewed her cheek and considered just turning around and hightailing it to the nearest Lunar Burger, but her panda started wailing, and she didn’t think it was worth the headache. Taking a deep breath, she pushed her way into the office.
    Okay, so far, so good. She was expecting something seedy and smoky. Yeah, she’d watched too many movies. In reality, it was just a pleasant little office.
    “One second and I’ll be with you,” called a harried voice.
    “No problem,” she