The Soldier's K-9 Mission by Linda O. Johnston

Author:Linda O. Johnston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-02-06T18:42:32+00:00

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With Bear mostly sniffing in front of him, Evan soon reached the main house with Amber and Lola. It was late afternoon.

“This has been an interesting day,” Amber said as they neared her front porch. She walked slowly, which he believed was more a sign of sadness than exhaustion. He’d had no trouble staying at her side.

Trouble? Heck, he was damn happy to be there.

“Interesting is a good word for it,” he agreed, then had to ask, “You okay?”

“Sure. The dogs might not have found anything helpful, but at least we eliminated another possibility, kind of as you said. No interesting scents left around there, at least not this long afterward. And...well, now you’ve seen the area. If you get any more ideas about what happened, how it happened—”

“I’ll be sure to tell you so you can follow up with the cops.”

He realized his mind would persist in concentrating on that very question—what really happened? If he came up with good ways to investigate further, he’d have to decide whether to mention them to Amber or not.

If that answer was not, he’d still continue on his own—with Bear’s help.

Get the cops involved? Maybe, although he wondered about their competency since they hadn’t solved the crime, even after the passage of months. Would they eventually?

That was their job, not his. But he wanted a solution fast. For Amber.

Meanwhile, he had to get through the rest of this difficult day—more difficult for Amber, of course, than for him. But how?

He would be leaving her presence soon, for now, which would give him the opportunity to think and plan. But first, he had to do his job.

As it turned out, he thought of a way to do both together.

“I’ve been thinking about where we are, and I now really agree it’s time to begin publicizing the classes to come,” he said. “No matter what I said before, I’m ready now. First thing I’d like to do is to show some of the skills I’ll teach later on, to let the police departments who might want to acquire trained K-9s, or to get ones they already have trained or retrained, know that this is the place to do it. I’d like to give a sort of public demo with Bear tomorrow. You said that Orrin acted as an agitator during your dad’s training sessions, right?”

“That’s right. But—”

“Good. And I assume you have a protective suit. If Percy’s available tomorrow, this is the time for him to film a session, like he suggested, and put the whole thing up on your website as fast as possible as a teaser about what we’re starting to do. Some of my training sessions with your young shepherds, too, within the next week. In fact, I want to run downtown now and recruit Percy, give him the parameters of what I’m thinking and get his thoughts about the best way to handle this. It’s nothing you haven’t thought about, but I’m ready to jump on it.”

“Well, sure,” Amber said, her eyes large, as if she was surprised at the direction of his thinking.

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