The only reason Shane made it through each day was because of Cinna. Strangely, though he’d broken up with Robin, he wasn’t nearly as angry as he was even a few months ago. Not carrying around fifteen years of fury stemming from his father was so liberating. Shane actually had room for his own life, his own problems.
The biggest problem was sharing the pup with his brothers—and everyone else on the ranch. Dwayne didn’t care who had what animals, as long as they didn’t interfere with the ranch dogs or livestock and that they were taken care of.
More often than not, Cinna could be found at Shane’s heels or with Kurt’s border collie, Patches. Since the two next-door neighbor dogs had taken a liking to each other, Shane and his brothers had been eating dinner more and more at Kurt’s too. May
