The Mare

Ginger

I didn’t dare say how much I wished she could live here, how I’d dreamed of it, prayed for it. Because then I’d have to tell her that it was Paul who blocked it and she would think he didn’t like her — that’s how she would feel it. I couldn’t talk to Paul about it either. He had changed since the confrontation about the teacher, and I felt him accept Velvet’s presence more sincerely. I didn’t want to mess that up.