Declan by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773367521
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2023-06-23T00:00:00+00:00

The next morning Declan got up, put on the coffee, and wandered through the house. Everything outside appeared calm, yet a sense of disquiet hung in the air. He didn’t know what it was, but it had woken him up, taking him from a sound sleep to awake and aware within minutes. Now dressed, and not seeing anything that his senses told him was going on, he looked down at Shelby to find her in the same situation, her sense of awareness heightened.

“Something’s out there, isn’t it?” he murmured. She looked at him and her tail wagged, and immediately her gaze went to the kitchen door.

“You want to go out?” he asked. At her tiny woof, he opened the door, and, with a cup of coffee in hand, he stepped out with her. She stopped at the top step of the deck and looked around. Her ears were up. Her tail didn’t wag, and her inner sense—which he knew perfectly well that dogs did have—knew something unnerving was out there. Declan watched as she slowly made her way down to the yard and went to the bathroom.

When she was done, she continued on to the back of the fence. Her ears up, her gaze scanned from side to side as she moved. He watched her, knowing that she would tell him faster than anything when something was wrong. She got down to the far back side and seemed to relax, and he felt some of his own tension relaxing along with hers. Then suddenly she bounded forward and started barking. He raced down and joined her at the back fence, looking to see what had her upset. The fact that she’d calmed down and then had barked confused him. He didn’t know if it was just a change in wind direction or if she had missed something earlier.

Whatever it was, she was pretty upset about it right now. He got down and placed a hand on her shoulder, as he studied the area around him. Hanging off the end of the fence was a dead squirrel. He looked at it for a long moment, then realized the squirrel hadn’t come to its end naturally. It had actually been hooked on the fence.

He quickly took several photos and sent them off to Badger, who called him right away.

“That’s an odd threat,” he murmured.

“I know, and it doesn’t make any sense. Yet there’s definitely a feeling of this not being there before.”

“Had you been along that back fence before?”

“No, and believe me I wish I had been,” Declan admitted. “There’s a weird sensation of being watched, plus that pop can I found yesterday. And, as you mentioned, no way to really know how long it had been there.”

“Believe me. I know those instincts. Keep listening to them,” Badger replied. “This is just one of those odd situations where we still don’t quite understand what we’re looking for.”

“As to anything and anyone,” Declan stated, his tone abrupt.

“Look. I’ll phone the local cops in town and see if I can catch a guy I’ve been to a couple conferences with.

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