The Sunday Potluck Club by Melissa Storm

The Sunday Potluck Club by Melissa Storm

Author:Melissa Storm [Storm, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2020-01-30T00:00:00+00:00


Chapter 26

Other than her brief hang-up with Trent, the evening passed quite quickly for Amy. The turnout had been amazing, and the shelter had received even more applications than they had available animals. Although she was sure not every application would turn into a formal adoption, the event had been a huge success, and Amy was so proud of Bridget for pulling the whole thing off. Despite her friends’ doubts, Bridget had accomplished exactly what she’d set out to do. She’d known she could do it, and so she did.

“Do you have room for one more application?” Amy asked her friend as they worked together to take down the decorations and officially close out Date-a-Rescue.

“That depends,” Bridget answered playfully as she waved a stack of paper hearts in Amy’s direction. “Who’s asking?”

Amy laughed. It felt good to see Bridget revert to her former self. She’d been so worried that her friend would have a meltdown, she hadn’t considered any alternative. Bridget seemed perfectly happy and at ease, the stress of the last two weeks magically vanished.

“Don’t you remember our walk in the park?” Amy asked, grabbing the posterboard hearts away from Bridget and adding them to her stack. “You said we should all adopt tonight, and I wanted to take you up on that. Especially since you’ve found my lucky Lab.”

Bridget cleared her throat and glanced down the line of kennels nervously. “Um, Jet’s already been claimed.”

Amy blinked hard as she considered her poor luck. Stupid! She should have put in an application sooner. She’d been foolish to think Jet was meant to be hers by some cosmic design. Of course, a Lab would be popular at an event like this.

Bridget grimaced in apparent pain on Amy’s behalf. “Well, we haven’t done background checks yet and some of our other animals have more than one applicant, so maybe that’s okay.” Her expression softened as she continued. “Give me your application, and the staff here will weigh it against the other one to decide which family’s the best fit.”

“Family?” Amy asked, taken aback. “Was it a family with kids who wanted him?”

Bridget stumbled a couple steps backward, not removing her eyes from Amy. “I don’t know, but I can check if it’s important to you.”

“Please.” Amy wanted Jet, but not if it meant taking him away from a kid. She even suspected she knew which kid had laid claim to him.

Bridget returned with a stack of applications and thumbed through them until she found the one for Jet. “Oh,” she said, shuffling the papers back into a proper stack. “It’s Olivia Springer.”

“I thought it might be.” Pushing her disappointment aside, Amy marched down the row of kennels until she reached Jet’s on the end. She waited until he locked eyes with her, and mostly to herself said, “They should get him, Olivia and Trent. I know he’ll make them both very happy. Right, boy?”

Jet thumped his tail halfheartedly and then laid his head down on top of his paws. Amy didn’t know whether he was signaling his agreement or whether he was simply too tired to care either way.



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