Fixed by L. A. Kornetsky

Author:L. A. Kornetsky
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

8

Mom, no.”

“But—” Her mother had That Voice going. Ginny had to be ruthless, or she’d be talked into something that would give her an ulcer.

“No. Seriously. And especially not with Aunt Dee and Uncle Alex coming, okay? If we’re still together next year, then yes, I will ask him if he wants to come.” Hopefully, that would hold her mother off.

“All right. But—”

“I love you, Mom. Gotta go.”

Ginny ended the call, and put her head down on her hands. She shouldn’t have mentioned her date, should have known better. Normally Ginny wouldn’t even let her mother know she was seeing someone until they’d been together for six months, certainly not after only two dates. She’d been trying to distract her mother from worrying about Thanksgiving, and it had slipped out, and God, when would she learn?

“Georgie, your human is an idiot. Fetch me some more coffee, will you?”

Under her bare feet, the shar-pei shifted and muttered something, showing no inclination whatsoever to head into the kitchen and refill Ginny’s mug.

“As a housegirl, you’re an utter failure, dog,” she said, digging her toes into the soft brindle pelt.

Georgie rolled over on her back, presenting her belly for toe-scritches.

“Forget about it,” Ginny said. “You didn’t get me coffee, so I have to go get my own.”

Feet removed, Georgie rolled back over on her side, barely waking up long enough to notice her human was leaving the room, secure in the knowledge that Ginny would be back.

“Huh. Was a time, dog, when you followed me everywhere.”

Even to the bathroom, waiting anxiously as though she were afraid the human might disappear behind that door forever. Ginny had to admit that she was glad that particular habit had been broken. It was weirdly difficult to pee, knowing that a dog was staring at you on the other side of the door.

She refilled her cup from the carafe, and added milk and sugar, thinking about the work she’d been doing before her mother called. She had been hired, originally, to arrange the baby shower for a young couple who were about to have their first baby, and who’d utterly flipped at trying to maintain their jobs plus all the baby-related essentials that needed to be done. That had gone so well they’d also asked her to work with their contractor and designer in putting together the nursery, and arranging for house cleaning and food delivery and all the things that they knew they’d forget or be too tired and stressed to manage once the baby was born. They were lovely people, perfectly willing to spend money to get things done right the first time, but they kept trying to get involved in the things they’d asked her to handle. She was ready to give them both a time-out until the baby was born.

If she didn’t like them so much, and if they didn’t pay so well, she’d probably kill them.

“Dogs are much easier to bring home than babies,” she said to Georgie as she went back into the office.

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