Sea Lion Shores i want a hot dog real bad

I’m sorry for your mother, he says.

She swallows, adjusts her shoulders, and looks over at him. Her eyes struggle to focus and all the emotion she’d been holding back so suddenly bursts through in tears. A breath catches in her throat. As much as it should be Blixen across from her, hearing about her mother and offering her apologies, it isn’t. She’d been waiting for the right time to tell her, to finish sharing everything so they could… maybe make things work again.

When he leans forward, she lowers her head, closing her eyes as his nose brushes against her cheek. It would have been easier if he hadn’t heard it so she could have left it stored away. A spring opens and a locked away sob breaks free, lowering her head even more to bury into the thick of his fur.