63 Days Later by Adrienne Wilder

Author:Adrienne Wilder [Wilder, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-01T18:30:00+00:00

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Keegan tossed the empty package of replacement milk into the garbage. Feeding the puppies for the last three days, every two hours had used up the milk supply in record time.

Three days. Three very long days. And Daisy still wasn’t stable enough for surgery. Much to Keegan’s dismay, she’d gone downhill during the first night and he’d spent hours on the phone with August while trying to feed puppies.

They’d talked, but mostly Keegan had listened to the man he loved slowly fall apart, his heart shattering into a million pieces because his best friend was on the edge of death.

Keegan couldn’t be sure which of them went to sleep first, but he woke up with the cell phone sitting on his shoulder and a very contented, puppy stuffed in the crook of his arm.

When the phone rang that morning, he’d expected the worst, but Daisy was still fighting despite the high fever and raging infection.

Since Keegan couldn’t sleep, he occupied the lulls in between feeding the puppies with building a whelping box to make it easier to get to them and keep them warm. The rest of the time he spent taking a change of clothes and meals to August.

Three days.

It might as well have been three months.

And now…now Keegan was out of milk, and the puppies would be squealing within the next couple of hours.

No big deal. He’d just get in the car, drive to the Pet Superstore and buy half a dozen bags and larger bottles so he wouldn’t have to stop and refill as often. It was only an hour’s drive down the highway. An hour and a half if the traffic was bad. If it was bad then the crowds at the mall would be brutal. The crowds at the Pet Superstore were always worse.

Ever since Keegan had frozen up at the grocery store, unable to move, he hadn’t dared go anywhere without August unless it was the local mom and pop roadside vegetable stand, the library, or some other nearly desolate location.

Some days he couldn’t even handle the small crowds. At least August didn’t mind picking up the slack, and he’d never made a big deal about how pathetic it was that a six-foot-nine-inch tall man couldn’t do something as simple as going to the grocery store alone.

Wolves, bears, muskeg, brutal subzero temperatures Keegan could deal with. Ten years in the bush had hardened him in ways few survived. But it had taken away a few things as well. It always did. Living out there with his senses on high alert, sleeping on the edge of waking up if a twig snapped, being hyper-aware of his surroundings, had saved his life in Alaska. It had also saved him a few times in prison for the short stint he had been there. But here it was a magnifying glass turning a busy world into absolute chaos.

Keegan picked up the car keys and his wallet from the spindly table by the front door and hesitated with his hand on the knob.

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