Badger by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773360133
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2018-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Walking out of the airport in London, Kat studied the gray skies and drizzling rain and shook her head. “I’ve been in this country once before. It was exactly the same weather. There was such a cold then that it seemed to penetrate the bones with this never-ending dampness. I was at the conference the better part of a whole week. Never got a chance to get out of the hotel. So I saw the weather through the plane or the hotel windows and in the cab ride from the airport to the hotel and back again to the airport. It never changed. The view was always incredibly depressing.”

Badger took her elbow and motioned her toward a taxi.

“Don’t we want to rent a vehicle?”

“No. Erick already has one.”

She slid into the back of the taxi.

Twenty minutes later, with lots of honking and traffic noises, vehicles going every which way, she murmured, “Now this is why I live in a small town.”

He laughed. “Exactly. Unless you happen to love a busy metropolis, London isn’t the place for you.”

“Well, it is if I’m a tourist,” she said with a laugh. “I don’t know what exactly we are doing here. And, if the weather ever changes, it might be nice to get out.”

“We will get out a lot,” he promised. “Whether the weather changes or not.”

“I didn’t bring anything for rain,” she said worriedly. “How could I have not brought a raincoat?”

“Not to worry. We’ll make out just fine.”

When the taxi pulled up in front of a large hotel, he helped her out, paid the fare and hooked her arm through his. “Remember, we’re in a relationship. We’re engaged, about to get married in the next few months.” His voice was low, only for her ears. “We’re here on a business trip.”

“What business is it exactly?”

He gave her a sideways glance and a big grin. “Your business.”

She raised an eyebrow, her mind spinning to look for reasons why she would be here. And then she remembered a couple of the profs and speakers who had been at the conference last year. “I was definitely trying to connect with a couple men. They did tell me, whenever I was in town, to contact them. One even has a fantastic lab. I’d really like to see it.” Her voice picked up with enthusiasm. She couldn’t help it. It was her specialty. “If we can fit that in, then I will consider this trip very worthwhile.”

“Where is he?”

She frowned. “I’ll have to check my email. A vet here who does prosthetics. I know it’s not a system that works well for humans yet, but I was thinking that, maybe in your case …”

She felt his sharp glance but didn’t explain. How could she explain that currently prosthetics were held on by suction and proper fit? But then he knew that. The vet, however, was actually putting steel rods into the bones on animals so legs could be clipped on permanently. And, if something broke, then a new leg could be put on through the permanent locking system.

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