Member-only story
I Never Told You But
Simone stomped her feet and screwed up her face resembling an angry chimp. “You can’t do that! I want the chocolate Labrador for my Halloween costume.”
“I’ve already got Boss’s permission to borrow his meerschaum pipe so long as I take care of it. I’m going as Sherlock Holmes with a hat and pipe as a prop. I need our Manfred to help me recreate a famous mystery. I’m adding a wicker basket to his halter and telling everyone I’m working on a mystery called Hound of the Basket-ville.” Trevor laughed.
Breathing hard through clenched teen, she stared at him, trying to turn him to stone.
He barely caught her expression and tipped his head to the side. “I guess it’s not funny if you have read The Hound of the Baskervilles. Anyway, this big dog terrorizes the countryside, but it isn’t a…”
Simone growled, “I wanted Manfred to wear a white sheet, so he’d become a white horse pulling me in my wagon.” She flicked her hair back with one hand and turned her chin up at a regal tilt. “I plan to be a rags to riches princess going to the fancy ball to dance with my prince. I’ve got a bunch of old shoes to leave behind as I’m rushing to return home before midnight. I created cardboard cutouts clipped to the wagon to make it look like a big pumpkin. It won’t look like a royal carriage without a pretty white horse.”
