Technically Mine (Love, Emerson Book 2) by Isabel North

Author:Isabel North [North, Isabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Isabel North
Published: 2017-04-18T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Nora tested it out that evening, but while being left in the car had hurled Sunshine into a frenzy of panic, she didn’t seem to care when Nora left her in the apartment.

She simply watched from her bed as Nora walked out and shut the door.

After standing outside and counting to fifty, braced the entire time for barking and general canine chaos, Nora went back in to assess the situation. She nearly fell over the dog, who was sitting stuffed up by the door, but doing it with steady patience.

Sunshine licked the back of her hand, bumped her knees with tail-wagging enthusiasm for a minute or two, and wandered off to chew a plastic bone.

So it was being left in cars that set her off.

Or watching through a window as someone she loved walked away from her.

Even though she could have left Sunshine asleep in the apartment the next morning, in the end Nora decided to take her to the office.

“Wow,” Anna said when they walked in. Sunshine pranced beside Nora in her new collar and leash, looking around with interest, as if she’d forgotten what the outside world looked like. Anna fumbled for her purse, pulled out a pair of enormous sunglasses, and put them on. “Aah. Better.”

Nora scowled. “She’s not that yellow.”

“I have a degree in Art History. I went through design school. I am an interior designer. And yet if someone asked me to describe that exact color yellow, I’d come up blank.”

“Custard.”

“Huh.” Anna crouched to pet Sunshine, somehow managing to do it without a single wobble, even though she was wearing four-inch stilettos. “Morning, sweetie. Here to brighten up the place? Good job!”

Leaving them to get acquainted, Nora ran out to her car and returned with Sunshine’s bed and her backpack of snacks, toys, and water bowl. She set the bed against the wall by the bathroom, where they wouldn’t keep tripping over it. Sunshine nudged her aside and climbed in. Nora kissed the top of her head and turned to find Anna staring at them with disapproval, hands on hips.

“I don’t think this is going to work,” Anna said.

“Yes, it is. She’s a good girl, she won’t be a bother. I’ll take her out to the park for walks and pee breaks. I didn’t want to leave her alone on her first day.”

“No. I don’t like it.” Anna gestured with an open palm. “The wall is pink. The dog bed is green. The dog is custard. I can’t work in this kind of environment. It hurts my artistic sensibilities.”

“Then I quit.”

“Calm down, mama bear. I can repaint the wall. Something to frame her, make the color pop—not that she needs a lot of help in that department. I’m thinking an antique cream. I want it to tone, not contrast. And we’ll have to get another bed.”

“I like this one. It took me an hour to pick it out.”

“Yes. Corduroy makes a hell of a statement. A statement which should never be voiced in the office of an interior designer.

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