Harlequin Special Edition November 2015, Box Set 1 of 2 by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459292048
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Rory had fallen asleep on the couch, dog on the floor beside him. Looking in, Abby smiled. Rally raised his head immediately, attentive, and she motioned to him. If Rory could let him out back, so could she.

The sun was shining again, but the snow was still blowing hard, a bright day being lost in a whiteout. She grabbed her jacket and stepped out onto the back porch. Rory was right, the dog didn’t like this. He didn’t go very far to make his deposit before loping back up to her side.

Even though the day had brightened a lot, the barn was still just a gray hulk behind the blowing snow. Abby knew this kind of weather from long experience, although it didn’t usually happen so early in the season. Whiteouts usually waited until the depths of winter when the snow was so dry it didn’t take much wind to kick it up. Of course, they didn’t usually have snow this early, either. One thing was for certain, they could probably be sure of a white Christmas.

Not that it mattered. Things changed, the weather got weird sometimes. She let herself and the dog back in, then went to start breakfast. As lightly as they’d eaten last night, she decided to break out the bacon.

But first she fed and watered Rally, who seemed a little less blue this morning. His tail had risen to half staff and wagged a bit as she filled his bowl.

“Fickle boy,” she said to him as she patted his rump once. “Getting over your best girl already?”

Or maybe resignation was just settling in. The dog stayed with her, begging silently when she started frying the bacon. Oh, he wanted some of that. She wondered if it would be a sin to give him a piece of the real thing instead of one of his bacon treats. Probably. Why spoil him for things he couldn’t continue to have?

The question drew her up short for a minute. Was that happening to her? Was she developing a taste for things she couldn’t have, like Rory and Regina?

If so, she was headed for a mighty fall sooner or later. Of that she had not the least doubt. Rory would go back to Nashville eventually, and wherever he went, Regina and the dog would go with him.

Loss already shadowed her future, as it darkened her past. Which she guessed made her the ultimate fool.

She looked at the Great Dane, unable to mistake the pleading in his gaze. “Dog treat for you,” she said firmly, then went to get him one. No way was she going to teach that animal to want what wasn’t good for him.

A lesson she needed to keep in mind for herself. Most definitely.

“I smell bacon.”

Rory’s voice drew her attention to the kitchen door. She wondered if he had any idea how scrumptious he looked with tousled dark hair, sleep-heavy blue eyes, and his shirt hanging crookedly.

“The aroma of bacon will wake the dead,” he remarked.

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