Her Second Chance Man
(Cara Colter)
For an awful moment,Brian thought the puppy had died.
He glanced at his niece,sitting on the passenger side of his
1964 orange ford pickup truck.Her hair-dyed an unlikely
shade of black-fell in a limp veil,shielding her profile from
his probing gaze.Beneath the thin straps of a tank top-also
black-her bony shoulders were hunched foward as if she
was protecting herself from a blow.
Even after six months of sharing a house with one,Brian
Kemp-a bachelor-was no expert on the mysteries of
teenage girls.He had been told they were remarkably re-
resilient,and yet his niece,bent over that puppy with her
hands quiet and tense in the golden fur,did not seem re-
silient.In fact,he was not sure if he had ever seen a more
fragile sight.
He didn't realize he had been holding his breath until the
dog drew in a long ragged gulp of air,and then he did,too.
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