Linda Miller - McKettrick's Pride

Makeup?

Echo sighed. Too much getting ready again.

She settled for lip gloss and a touch of mascara.

Perfume?

Not a chance.

“Come on,” she said to Avalon, hooking a leash to the dog’s collar and grabbing for her purse. “We’ll drive slowly, so we don’t seem too eager.”

Avalon sighed.

They descended the stairs, into the shop, and Echo paused a moment to enjoy the new shelves and the smell of sawdust.

Outside, she locked the shop door and approached the Volkswagen. She’d bought it with a windfall, last year. Now, looking at it, she wondered if she shouldn’t have chosen a more circumspect color.

She opened the passenger-side door, and Avalon leaped obediently into the seat, waited while Echo unhooked the leash again and fastened the seat belt.

“Can’t be too careful,” she said. “After all, you’re probably preggo.”

A minute later, they were zooming out of town.

They’d traveled several miles before Echo remembered that she didn’t want to seem eager, and slowed to approximately the speed of a lawn mower.

Avalon panted, watching the scenery drag by.

Echo turned the radio on, then off again.

Flipped on the CD player.

Mozart. That was what she needed. Nice, soothing Mozart.

So why did everything inside her vibrate to “Boot-Scootin’ Boogie?”

The ranch house was built of logs and mortar, and stood facing a shimmering creek, dancing in the fading sunlight of a summer evening.

She pulled the Volkswagen up alongside Rance’s SUV, and smiled when Rianna and Maeve burst out onto a side patio and raced toward her.

“I’ve got a pink car, too!” Rianna shouted when Echo rolled down her window to greet them.

Avalon gave a joyous yelp and strained at her seat belt.

After determining that it was safe to turn the animal loose, Echo got out and went around to the other side of the car to do so.

Avalon sprang out with a happy woof and ran in ecstatic circles around Rianna and Maeve, who seemed equally delighted.

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