Misty and the Single Dad by Marion Lennox

Author:Marion Lennox
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

They took the two dogs back out to the farm and left them in the laundry while they shifted Nick and Bailey’s gear.

That took less than an hour.

The laundry was shared by both sections of the house. In theory, they could put the dogs there to sleep. During the day Misty could take Ketchup to her side of the house and Bailey could take Took to his side. But it was never going to happen. Bailey was in and out of Misty’s side about six times in the first fifteen minutes.

‘I need to go see Gran,’ Misty decreed at last, so both dogs settled in the sun on the veranda. Together. When Misty came home, both dogs and Nick and Bailey were on the veranda. Together.

Two days ago, this veranda had been all hers. Now…

Now she had emotions running every which way.

But why quibble? If she had to put her dreams on hold, maybe this was the next best thing.

They ate pizza again—‘Just to show Took we can,’ Bailey explained. Then Nick read his son a bedtime story on his side of the house and he came outside again as Misty was thinking she ought to go into her side of the house. But Took had left her now-sleeping owner and come back to join Ketchup. Both dogs were at her feet. Why disturb them?

Rockers on the veranda? Any minute now, Nick would offer to make her cocoa.

‘Can I make you cocoa?’ Nick asked and she choked.

‘What?’ he demanded.

‘It needed only that.’

‘It is…cosy,’ he ventured and she grinned and shook her head.

‘Ma and Pa and Kid and Dogs. It’s not the image I want to take to bed with me.’ She rose and picked up her dogs. Her dog, she reminded herself. And Bailey’s dog. In time, they might teach Took to sleep on Bailey’s bed. But she had a very clear idea of exactly what would happen. Ketchup and Took would both be on Bailey’s bed. Two dogs on a child’s bed…

It was the same as cocoa.

She’d settle them in the laundry and go do some schoolwork, she told herself and turned to the door. But Nick was before her, opening the door, and then, as she struggled to keep Took’s long legs under control, he lifted Took from her and followed her.

They’d set up two dog beds. They put a dog in each, side by side. Ketchup whimpered and Took sidled from her basket into Ketchup’s. She sort of sprawled her long legs around Ketchup so Ketchup was wrapped in a cocoon of whippet.

‘These guys are great,’ Nick said, smiling and rising, and Misty smiled and rose, too, only she rose too fast and Nick was just…there.

His face was right by hers. His hands were steadying her.

Back away fast. She couldn’t.

There was something between them she didn’t recognise. There’d been no guy in Banksia Bay who made her feel…like she felt like she was feeling now.

She didn’t want him to let her go.

They were standing in her grandmother’s laundry.

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