Michael grabbed her waist and turned her around.
"What's on your mind?" He asked.
"Fear," she confessed. "Doubts and uncertainties."
She looked at him straight in the eye and gave him her honest truth. "And the need to bolt before all of this collapses around us." She hesitantly added.
"I'm afraid bolting is nolonger an option now," Michael led her to the couch. "Cricket and I need you in our lives."
"And the truth finally comes out," Everly chuckled. "I so knew it!"
The second she met cricket,she was overcome by so much emotion. Because he was the most perfect dog that she had ever seen.
But when those thoughts and emotions shifted to the back of her mind; she started suspecting that Michael had gotten them the dog, just to tie her down.
"I wanted him," he said. "I knew you'd
