Jeanie
Gabe came back from the parking lot looking very troubled.
“Everything okay?”
He picked up the grooming kit and then put it down. “I’m pretty sure I just undid all the good you did today.”
I straightened and felt my brow wrinkle. “How so?”
“I mentioned the trip to Boston. There was some misunderstanding. He thought he was going to Boston to see his dad.”
“Oh, no.” I breathed.
“Ann had to tell him that his dad doesn’t want to see him.” He raked his hands through his hair. “He’s going to give Isaiah up for adoption. I don’t think Isaiah knows that part yet.”
He dropped down on a bale of hay. “I’d like to say, how could he do that? How could he walk away from his own flesh and blood? But when I divorced my first wife, I pretty much did the same thing to Lucy.”
I sat down nex
