Death of a Dog Whisperer (9780758284570) by Berenson Laurien

Author:Berenson, Laurien [Berenson, Laurien]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2014-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

We could have gone straight home from Greenwich, but honestly, I couldn’t come up with a single reason why that would be a good idea.

Sam was undoubtedly there. It couldn’t have taken him more than half an hour to drop Davey off at camp. A month earlier, it would have seemed like the most natural thing in the world for me to drive home and make lunch for the three of us.

But now when I pictured Sam and me sitting across from each other at the kitchen table, I couldn’t imagine what we might find to talk about beyond some mundane topic like the weather or the price of gas. Everything else—in fact any subject of substance—seemed like it might be fraught with risk.

I still couldn’t get past the festering resentment I felt about the cavalier way in which I’d been treated by my own family. Even worse had been Sam’s complete dismissal of my feelings when I’d tried to discuss the matter. Sadly the end result was that I’d been left with no desire to talk to my husband at all.

So instead of going home, Kevin and I detoured to Alice’s house in my old neighborhood. Over the course of the last decade, Alice and I have spent numerous hours sharing our problems and secrets, and our joys and frustrations. She and her husband, Joe, had been married for nearly fifteen years. Their relationship hasn’t always charted the smoothest course, but somehow Alice always finds a way to make things work. Her methods rely on diplomacy, consideration, and perseverance, leavened with the occasional touch of brute force. If anyone could give me sane and sensible advice about how to reset my relationship with Sam, I was sure it was going to be Alice.

“Good,” I said when she answered the door. “You’re here.”

Alice grinned and shoved open the screen door with a swing of her hip. She grabbed Kevin—whose diaper I’d changed when we got back to the car—and pulled us both inside the compact, cape-style home that had obviously been built from the same blueprint as Bob’s house just down the block.

Alice planted a loud, smacking, kiss on Kevin’s mouth, rubbed his nose with her own, then deigned to look at me. “You might have called first before driving over here,” she pointed out as Kevin squirmed in her arms and shrieked with delight.

“What, and ruin the suspense?” I said with a laugh. “Besides, Kev and I were already out gallivanting.”

“Oh, I loved that.” Alice sighed. “I used to gallivant. You know, when I was still young and carefree. Like you.”

She lowered Kevin to the floor. Immediately the toddler took off toward the back of the house. I had no idea what he was looking for, but he seemed to have an agenda. Alice and I watched him go. Neither of us was in a hurry to follow.

“Young and carefree,” I said. “What’s that?”

“Says the baby of the group.” Alice huffed.

“Alice, we’re the same age.”

“We are not. You’re in your mid-thirties.

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