Something About Ewe

Her frown revealed her frustration. “Mother says he used to be real perky and now he just lies around and sighs.”

“Sighs?”

She nodded solemnly. “Or as close to a sigh as a dog can get. It’s almost like…like he’s depressed about something.”

“You know,” Luke frowned, puzzling over what she’d said, “you could be right. Maybe what he needs is a new interest in life, something to shake him out of the doldrums.”

“Like what?” she asked, obviously interested.

“I don’t know, like—” Luke slapped his hand alongside his temple. “Of course, why didn’t I think of this before? Thalia, Border collies are working dogs.”

“Yes.” She frowned. “And your point is…?”

“Your mother got him from a rancher, right?”

She nodded. “A sheep rancher, actually.”

“Then that’s it.” He ruffled Reckless’s furry black head.

“What’s it?”

“He needs a job. He needs sheep to herd.”

Her eyes widened. “You mean Mother’s pet needs pets of his own?”

Luke threw back his head and laughed. “Exactly. A few sheep to herd around in circles could give purpose to his days.” He looked at her then through half-shuttered eyes. “How about you, Thalia? Do you need new purpose to your days?”

She met his gaze squarely. “I don’t need new purpose, Luke,” she said too sweetly. “I’m happy with my days exactly as they are.”

As if he believed that. Amused, he showed her and the depressed Border collie from the office, promising a report on the dog’s tests in a day or two.

And already scheming to get her alone to deliver them.

THAT NIGHT AT DINNER, Thalia innocently repeated Luke’s remarks to her mother, and then only in passing. Therefore, no one was more astonished than she when two sheep were delivered a day later.

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