New Leash on Life (The Dogfather Book 2) by Roxanne St. Claire

Author:Roxanne St. Claire [St. Claire, Roxanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: South Street Publishing
Published: 2017-05-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The emergency meeting of the town council to vote on the consideration of a name change got scheduled for Wednesday morning. But that had given Shane and Chloe two full days to take Daisy in and out of many of the shops that ran the perimeter of Bushrod Square.

And every time a person fell for Daisy—like the bookstore owner who ended up on the floor with her and the florist who tucked daisies in her collar—they not only won important hearts in town, but Shane’s own heart felt lighter.

He didn’t know what he loved more, converting the world to pit bull lovers or watching Chloe become more and more comfortable with touching and petting Daisy. The more she fell for the dog…the more he fell for her.

They learned early on that most of the time, they needed to buy something, so every few hours, they’d go back to Chloe’s house to give Daisy a break and unload their purchases.

Together, they were the proud owners of more stationery, baked goods, T-shirts, socks, teacups, craft beer, candy, fresh produce, a box of nails with a hammer, and body butter than either of them could ever use. Although, that last one? Shane was pretty sure he could come up with something creative.

Tonight. This afternoon. Soon.

But Chloe had to present today to the town council and to what he knew would be a sizable audience of non-voting, but very interested, townspeople. Every one of their Daisy Drop-ins, as she called the visits they’d made for the last two days, had helped the cause.

There wasn’t universal support for the name change, but if the popular vote were taken today and not just the council vote, Shane was pretty sure he’d soon be living in a town called Better Bark.

Daisy had indeed been a secret weapon. In fact, right now she was pacing the brick sidewalks of Bushrod Square as if she expected to be taken into a local business and fussed over.

“Not today, girl,” Shane told her as he settled on a park bench and took a few more pictures of her to text to Marie, since he’d been keeping her informed about Daisy’s PR job. “Chloe’s doing her special Chloe thing.”

Chloe had left a key to her house hidden for him and asked him to stop by and take Daisy out while she was presenting to the town council, since she had no idea how long she’d be. As soon as he got the dog, he knew he wanted to be the first person she talked to when she left that presentation.

He wanted her to win this for so many reasons. He was all in on the idea, of course, having spent days with her learning how her business worked. No nights, though. He’d left her house three—no, four—times in a row with no more than a lot of long kisses. Anything more and her wall went up and she grew cool and distant.

“Hello, Shane.”

He turned, pushing up the beak of his ball cap to get a better look at the man walking toward him.

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