Chapter 40

“Right. I love Carrie so much, it’s going to be hard watching her go through anything bad again…ever.”

“Me, too.”

“One life moment at a time, I suppose. Live in the present. Right now, she seems completely and totally happy. Hello, Mr. Dingee.” I opened the door for him and offered my love camel a smooch on the cheek. “Back to work.” Then, I cracked the proverbial whip. We still had half a day to get through.

All in all, I fell back into the groove a bit easier than anticipated. Maybe the pills helped, or the therapy, or my Goose. I tried not to think about the first day I would eventually have to face it there without him.

“Crap!”

Close to closing time, Goose was the one having issues. I studied my mirror to try to find him. “Something wrong?”