He liked the sound of her laugh.It made his heart want to burst with love.
“Walker.”Maggie blinked, and a tear rolled down her face.“Mason is cheating on me.I can’t believe he would do something like that.”She swallowed.“I guess I never really knew his character.”
Walker let out a bark.He wanted to let her know that he never liked Mason.He tried to warn her when he peed on the guy’s pants leg.But all that got him was Maggie’s mom yelling at him.
A dog could always tell what type of character a person had.Dogs were never wrong.
Maggie looked deep into his eyes.“I can’t tell my parents, at least not yet.They really like Mason.It would disappoint them to know I’m not staying with him.”
Walker gave her hand a lick to let her know everything would be okay.
“Thanks, boy.”Her eyes drew together in concern.“Mom told me you are having some eye issues.”
Walker sighed and lay back down in her lap.
Now was not the time to be worried about him.He didn’t like to see her sad.
He whined.
“I don’t know what my parents told you, but you’re not going anywhere.”
Walker stood and cocked his head.
She got to her feet and patted her thigh.“Come on, boy, let’s go to my room.”
He let out a stretch and then tried to follow the sound of her footsteps.He bumped into the fender of her mother’s car.
Maggie gasped and immediately went to him.She cradled his face between her hands.“Oh, Walker.I’m so sorry.I forgot …”
He wished he could tell her he wasn’t hurt.
Maggie looked around the wall of the garage.She found something and came back over to him.Kneeling, she snapped a collar and leash around his neck.
Walker sighed.He hated a collar.
“This is so you won’t run into anything.Come on, boy.Let’s go to my room.”
He made his way up the familiar steps back inside the house.
He could smell her mother cooking something in the kitchen.Whatever it was smelled good.But he knew he certainly wasn’t getting any of it.Since Maggie had gone away to college, all he got was dry dog food.Yuck.
Maggie’s mother stepped out of the kitchen and scowled when she saw Walker.
“Maggie, he needs to be in the garage, so he won’t bump into something and destroy it.”She pressed her lips into a thin white line.
“He’s not staying in the garage.He’s my dog, and he’s going to my room with me.”Maggie lifted her chin and walked past her mother with Walker in tow.
When she opened her bedroom door, he smiled at the familiar scent.
They both stepped inside, and he bumped into the bed.
“Oh, Walker.Here, let me help.”Maggie picked him up and put him on the bed.
He walked in a circle and curled up into a ball.
He was back inside, in Maggie’s bed.Most importantly, his Maggie was home.
Chapter4
