Amber rubbed her eyes as she waited for Jewel to call her back into her office. She hated coming to Los Angeles to the Forever Friends headquarters, but paperwork needed to be signed, and Jewel couldn’t get out of the office.
So Amber had made the drive into the city, leaving Last Chance Ranch in the hands of Susanna Rodriguez, the woman Amber was training to take her place as the volunteer coordinator and adoption specialist.
Things had been moving faster than she’d anticipated, and she’d be in Denver by mid-August. It was too close and yet too far away at the same time. She couldn’t help looking to her left every time she drove onto the ranch. Lance lived down that first road, and she wanted to catch a glimpse of him.
She never did. They’d worked together a lot over the past couple of
