Next Door Knight by Nicole Flockton

Author:Nicole Flockton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781949707922
Publisher: The Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2019-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Kerry smiled at George as he placed the folded leg scooter in her trunk. “Thanks, George. Dad is going to appreciate having this. He just can’t get the hang of crutches. I thought his awkwardness was because of having both legs in casts, but it’s not. He’s just not crutch coordinated.”

The older man laughed and slammed the trunk shut. “Yeah, crutches can be a bitch to deal with, especially if you have stairs in the house.”

“Well, thank goodness, I don’t have stairs,” Kerry commented as they walked back into the building.

“Willow’s been a real help to a lot of the guys here. I hope you know how much we appreciate the time you take out of the day to bring her down.” George, a former Vietnam veteran, was the director of the center. He’d put a call out for a therapy dog just as she had completed Willow’s training, so Kerry had jumped at the chance to put all they’d learned into practice.

She couldn’t describe the emotions that had bubbled inside of her when she’d seen Willow help her first person. Now she wished she could do more, but she needed her job to pay for her house.

“We love coming here, George. It’s crazy. Willow seems to know which days we’re coming because she’s whimpering with excitement in the car when we get about a quarter mile from here. If I didn’t have her in a doggie seat in the back of the car, she’d leap out the second I opened the door. And, as you know, that’s not the easiest thing for a corgi to do.”

George laughed as they walked back into the coolness of the building. “Now that’s a sight I wouldn’t mind seeing. But so long as she doesn’t hurt herself, of course. We’d be lost without our Willow here.”

Pride at her dog burst within her. Never in a million years would she have ever thought she’d volunteer at a veterans’ center. For sure, if she’d still been with Winthorn, he wouldn’t have allowed her to do it. Of course, he wouldn’t have allowed her to have a dog. Or anything that took her attention away from him.

God, why was she still thinking about the jerk? Since her run-in with him at the restaurant, she hadn’t heard a peep from him so his threat to her had been as empty as his heart.

“I’ll speak to you later, Kerry. Let me know if your dad needs anything else, and also let him know he’s welcome here anytime. The other guys enjoy his company.”

“Thanks, George, I’ll tell him. He’ll get a buzz out of hearing that. He enjoys coming here too. Since Mom died, he’s been trying to find something that fulfills his time—hence he thought skiing might be something he could take up. Visiting here is a much safer venture. Not to mention he enjoys playing cards with Eric and the others.”

George laughed as he headed down the hallway to his office. Kerry couldn’t deny the place was therapeutic for her as well.

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