“We’re cursed, Mom. Remember?”
Daphne took a drag of her cigarette. “We are that.” Smoke billowed from between her lips as she spoke. “Look at your sister. She’s hoppin’ from one loser to the next?”
“Amanda?” Violet asked because, as far as she knew, Whitney hadn’t dated anyone since she moved back to Coyote Ridge, so she wasn’t doing any hopping. And Honor had been seeing Luca for what felt like forever.
“That girl’s got the same taste in men I do,” her mother muttered. “If there’s a loser in sight, she’s gonna latch onto him.”
Violet didn’t bother trying to placate her. There was no reason to. Her mother continued to take scraps from her father, proving that her decision-making skills when it came to men were questionable.
“I thought she was gettin’ engaged?”Again.Violet left off that part since her sister’s first failed marriage was a point of contention for everyone.
Her mother took another drag from the cancer stick. “Turned out the ring she found wasn’t for her.”
Oh, man. That had to suck. No wonder Amanda was avoiding her calls. They weren’t close, but Violet attempted to check in with her older sisters every couple of weeks to see how things were going.
“Who was it for?”
Daphne met her gaze. “The guy’s wife.”
“Oh, shit. He was married?”
“Yup.”
“It’s the curse,” Violet muttered.
“You should go out with this nice guy,” Daphne said, stabbing her cigarette out.
“Me? Why?”
“Maybe if you do, it’ll lift the curse, and we might get some of our sanity back.”
“Why would it work like that?” Violet asked, laughing.
“Why wouldn’t it?”
Hmm. If only it were that easy.
•••••
“A dog daycare?” Simon asked, positive he’dheard them wrong.
“It’s true,” Rafe confirmed, shaking his head as though he didn’t believe it either.
Holt nodded.
“Yes,” Bailey told him, giggling. “Why’re you having such a hard time with that?”
The four of them had shared dinner in the dining room since the only other guest at the B and B had opted to have her meal delivered to her room rather than eat with others. According to Bailey, that was a common theme among their guests.
“Because you useddoganddaycarein the same sentence,” Simon answered.
“Don’t tell me your brother wouldn’t take his dog to a daycare,” Holt said, pointing at Simon.
That made him grin because, yeah, Simon could see his brother, Corbin, taking his Yorkie to a dog daycare. That was if the man didn’t take him to work with him daily. Which he did.
Bailey laughed.
Simon looked between Holt and Rafe. “My brother aside, people actuallyusedog daycares?”
