A Cowboy's Christmas Promise by Maggie McGinnis

Author:Maggie McGinnis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 2014-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

“You want to turn your dog purple?” Hayley felt her eyebrows practically hit her hairline. “May I ask why?”

Mrs. Winger tsk-tsked. “Why, it’s all the rage. Haven’t you seen Doggie Styling 101?”

“I’m sorry, no. I don’t even know what that is.”

“It’s a show. Mondays at two o’clock on—oh, gosh. I can’t remember the channel right now. I have it DVR’d. But anyway, they do all the latest styles.”

“I’m not sure I’m big on the poodle industry having styles.”

“So can you do it?”

“Can I do it? Turn your dog purple?”

Mrs. Winger nodded. “Yes. I want to be responsible about it and do it safely. Only organic dyes and all.”

“I, umm, I don’t carry dyes here, to be honest. Organic or otherwise.”

“Well, you really should. But only the organic ones. They’re so much easier on the coat than those other kind.” She shivered dramatically. “Have you seen Animal Primping Disasters?”

“No. That one, neither.”

Hayley sighed, trying not to think back to a scene three weeks ago when she’d been sitting in a pile of straw with a newborn foal in her arms.

Just then, there was a knock at the exam room door, so Hayley excused herself into the back hallway. Dixie pointed her toward her office.

“You have a call on line three.”

“It better be about the lab supplies.” She indicated the door she’d just come through. “Any chance you could finish up with her?”

“Nope. She’s all yours.”

“I need a new assis—”

“I know. We can talk about that later. Go do battle with the lab first.”

Hayley headed to her office and sat in her rolling chair, taking a deep breath. She hated battle. She picked up the phone and tucked it to her shoulder while she shuffled some paperwork that had piled up on her desk.

“Kit-n-Kapoodle. This is Doctor Scampini.”

There was a pause at the other end, and then a chuckle that made her throat go suddenly dry.

“How do you say that without laughing?”

Daniel.

She stopped shuffling. “Umm, two years of practice?”

He laughed again. “I don’t think that would be long enough for me.”

“It grew on me. Plus, I had no choice.” She paused, feeling her pulse trip in her throat. “So. Hi.”

“Hi.”

“I didn’t know you had my work number.”

“Wonders of the Internet. Oddly enough, there aren’t a lot of Kit-n-Kapoodles to sort through.”

“Points for originality, right?”

“Definitely. So, I’m actually calling in an official capacity here.”

“Okay? Need me to help deliver another foal?”

“I wish. No. Believe it or not, I’ve got a Himalayan out here who found his way into a barn, and he’s got some serious skin erosion going on. Thought I’d call someone who actually knows how to treat these kinds of beasts and see if you have any ideas.”

Hayley smiled softly. Daniel was perfectly capable of looking up anything he needed to know about Himalayans with skin issues. Had he used the cat as an excuse to call her?

“And before you think this is just an excuse to call you, my Internet connection is down, so I can’t research it properly.”

“Oh. But I thought you looked up my num—”

“Skin erosion,” he interrupted.

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