Chapter Twenty-Nine Dani Wade’s words played on a loop in my mind over the next few days. As luck would have it, my schedule and his didn’t match at all. Although he had said I was welcome at his place anytime, I couldn’t quite bring myself to go over there on the nights I knew he was on call when I was working late. I told myself it was for the best, that we needed time to adjust. In all honesty, my doubts and anxieties were so well-established, they were winning the marathon in my brain. More and more, I was sensing I was the one who’d gone and fallen too hard and fast. I wasn’t so sure Wade was where I was on this spectrum of madness. Late one afternoon, I headed over to the vet clinic to meet with Shay and Valentina. We met together monthly to review numbers and go over accounts to

