Paws for Love by Dana Mentink

Author:Dana Mentink
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736966269
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Twelve

Misty awoke groggy the next morning to find a small terrier tight up against her and snoring in a volume totally out of proportion to his size. However, it wasn’t Jellybean’s nocturnal sounds that had kept her tossing and turning throughout the night, but rather her own noisy thoughts. Misty had never been good at interpreting social situations, but she’d seen clearly the intimate connection between Dina Everly and Bill. They knew each other in a way that she and Bill did not. It was clear they had spent time together outside of the preschool pickup and drop-off.

Why not? she asked herself bitterly as she got out of bed and pulled on her clothes. Dina was young, lovely, and easy to be around. What handsome man wouldn’t want that?

Jack had. Pain lanced through her chest, not so much for the loss of Jack as the humiliation of knowing the truth. As much as she wanted to blame Jack for the end of their relationship, she couldn’t. He really was a great guy, and he deserved a relationship with someone like Jill.

“I love you,” he’d said. “I’ll always love you, but I think we’re not completely compatible.” Compatible with a normal, well-rounded life.

Jack enjoyed people and parties and finding the newest hot spot in town. He was a sales rep, and he honestly loved the events, the small talk, the schmoozing and flitting from conversation to conversation like a bee in search of blossoms.

He loved, in essence, the very things Misty found frightening. But she’d learned to like those things, or at least attempt to like them, for him. Wasn’t that enough? To try to mold yourself into that round peg so you’d fit into someone else’s life?

Unless you didn’t. And you couldn’t. And it was just easier to hide yourself under that bushel or bed, or behind the anonymous computer screen. In the dead silence of the empty trailer, Misty felt her own light sputtering into darkness.

You’re not compatible with Bill’s life either, Misty. At least she’d figured it out early this time, before she was humiliated.

Bill deserved Dina. What better pairing than with a woman who knew all about kids—a wife and mother all rolled into one?

She looked down to find Jellybean sitting at her feet, staring up at her in that vacuous way.

“What?”

The stare.

“What do you want?”

Jellybean yipped and licked her bare feet.

“All right,” she said. “One song.” Taking up her violin, she poured her heart into a sad melody, the dog listening raptly. When she was done, he leaped onto her lap and swabbed her chin with his tongue to catch the tears she hadn’t known were falling.

“Jelly,” she said, burying her face in his wiry hair. “Did you ever feel like you were a mutt in a kennel of show dogs?” The little tongue continued to soothe the tears from her face.

“I wasn’t made to shine a light. I want to go home.”

Again the vacant stare, or was it perhaps a compassionate look?

She steeled her resolve.

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