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the
carpool line again. I know it’s dangerous to judge someone on a fifteen second
encounter, but I was impressed by her shameless bluff. Besides that, I’ve never
known anyone who had a Starfleet Academy decal in her rear window of her car.
    The woman intrigued me, and it’s been a
long time since I’ve been intrigued.
    Logan eyes me. “What?”
    “What do you mean, what?”
    “That look on your face. Did you meet
someone or something?”
    “No,” I deny. And it’s the truth. I
haven’t met her. She only saved my ass from that Natalie Brimswall woman and
then drove off.
    Reaching for the ring, he leans back in
his chair. After staring at the sparkling rock for a moment, he asks, “Does
Hannah still want a dog?”
    I’m not sure where the change of topic
came from, but I’ll happily take it if it will stop the conversation from
drifting towards my sorry dating life. “Hell, yes. Want to sell me yours?”
Kosmo is a chocolate lab mix that Logan got from Allie’s dog rescue. My
daughter is completely in love with him.
    “Not on your life. If it weren’t for Kosmo,
I never would have met Allie. I love Hannah, but there are limits to what I’d
do, even for her.”
    He’s actually lying. If Hannah got tears
in her eyes and begged him for Kosmo, I bet he’d hand the dog over to us. He’d
give her anything she wants, just like me. It’s probably because she asks for
so little.
    “You call yourself a good uncle?” I joke.
    “There are other great dogs that need
homes, Ryan.”
    “Yeah, but are they good with kids?”
    “I know one that is.”
    My ears perk up.
    “She’s a rescue Allie picked up about a
week ago,” he tells me. “Older dog. About six.”
    “Breed?”
    “Retriever or lab mix. Can’t quite tell.”
    “Is Allie fostering her?”
    “No, Allie’s friend has her. She lives in
the townhomes, two doors down from me.”
    My brother renovated a strip of townhomes.
He lives in one, and his girlfriend Allie lives next door. I don’t really know
why they don’t just live together, but I also don’t understand why my brother,
whose bank account rivals my own, is living in a fifteen hundred square-foot
townhome in the first place.
    There are so many things I don’t
understand about both of my brothers.
    “Is it Cass?” I ask, going to great pains
to look ambivalent. Cass is the only friend of Allie’s I’ve met. She’s cute,
and conveniently, she doesn’t work for JLS. Definitely date-able, and I would
have gotten around to it if I hadn’t been juggling my newfound duties as a
full-time dad.
    “No. Cass doesn’t have a foster dog now. She’s
moving back to New York in a week or two, last I heard.”
    Dammit. One less single woman in Newton’s
Creek.
    “Different friend,” he continues. “Kim. You
haven’t met her. She’s got a kid, so Allie only gives her the kid-proof dogs to
foster. Why don’t you drop by with Hannah tonight?”
    I toy with the pen on my desk for a
moment, spinning it over my index finger. There’s nothing better than the unconditional
love of a dog. It would be good for Hannah’s self esteem. “Okay,” I say with
slight apprehension, only because Logan looks like there’s more to this dog
than he’s telling me.
    “Great. You’ll love Lollipop.”
    “Lollipop? You’d stick me with a dog
named Lollipop?”
    Logan’s eyes narrow as he smiles. “With
pleasure, bro. Can’t wait for word to spread that the ruthless Ryan Sheridan
has a dog named Lollipop.”

Chapter
3
     
    ~ KIM ~
     
    Tilting my head toward the sky, I give a
quick sniff at the cool breeze, the same way the two dogs I’m walking just did.
I can’t help it. I smell the scent of burning hickory, and know that someone,
somewhere, is taking advantage of this first chill of fall by throwing a log
into the fireplace.
    It makes my mouth water for roasted
marshmallows.
    There’s a fine mist along the banks of
Newton’s Creek, the little brook that gave our town its name. The sun’s