My bright new beginning
A promise of more
I never saw coming
You gave me hope
You gave me reason
To live and love
And though you aren’t here
My love stays with you
Forevermore
Chapter forty-six
Remy
I glance at my watch. Nine a.m. Erik is usually in his balcony seat overlooking the orchestra.
When I enter, he isn’t there.
That alone puts me on edge.
I take a seat in the back corner, hidden from view, and turn my thoughts back to Tianna. Of all the ways I imagined we might cross paths again, this was not one of them.
Meg slips in beside me and presses a card into my hand.
Louisiana SPCA.
I lift a brow.
“She’s talking about buying a house,” Meg says quietly. “And she keeps talking about the dog she’ll get. Someday. You know her. She’ll put it off, worried she’ll fail it.” She pauses. “But if a dog just happened to need her…”
The implication is clear. I grin.
“Thank you.”
“I try.”
A presence settles behind us.
“I can do this.”
Erik plucks the card from my hand.
I blink. “Do what?”
“Get her a dog.” He studies the card like it’s a contract. “I’m good with animals.”
Meg winces. “Since when?”
He looks genuinely offended. “How hard can it be? You feed them. You pat them. You give them a bone.”
“That is wildly incomplete,” Meg says.
