Tracking Justice (Texas K-9 Unit) by McCoy Shirlee

Author:McCoy, Shirlee [McCoy, Shirlee]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Love Inspired
Published: 2013-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

“Can I go outside, Momma? Please?” Brady’s wheedling tone drilled its way into Eva’s skull and settled there, pounding behind her eyes and in the base of her neck. She popped the lid on a bottle of aspirin before she answered, swallowing two pills down with a gulp of cold, black coffee.

Patience.

She needed it.

Two days trapped in the house with her grumpy son, and she’d had about all she could take of him and of herself.

“Brady, you know that the doctor said you need to rest for the next few days. Resting doesn’t mean going outside in the cold.” She kept her tone light despite the fact that she’d answered the same question a half a dozen times.

“It’s not cold. The sun is even out.” Brady pressed his face to the living-room window, the scratches on his cheek and the bruise on his forehead stark reminders of his reasons for being grouchy. He hadn’t slept well in the hospital. Wasn’t sleeping well at home. Eva wanted to change that, but no amount of comforting words seemed to help.

“Forty degrees is cold, and that’s what the thermometer on the back deck says the temperature is.”

“Can I go look?”

“You know you can’t.”

“But—”

“No more arguing.”

“Okay. I guess I’ll just play with my Legos.” He sighed dramatically and went to the plastic bin he’d left on the coffee table. He dumped the bin on the floor, sorting through the blocks with such intense concentration, Eva smiled.

“What are you going to build?”

“A doghouse.”

“For Lightning?” She looked at the big, white stuffed dog that Arianna had given him.

“For Justice. When Austin brings him over—”

“They might not have time to stop by today. You know that, right?” It had been a full day since they’d heard from Austin, and Eva wasn’t disappointed about that.

Much.

She frowned, rubbing the knot in the back of her neck.

She wasn’t disappointed at all.

As a matter of fact, she was relieved.

The last thing she needed was one more complication in her already complicated life. She glanced at the flashing light on the answering machine. Dozens of friends had called since Brady’s release from the hospital. So many that she’d begun screening her calls and letting most go to voice mail. She appreciated her friend’s concern, but she and Brady both needed some quiet time if they were ever going to begin to heal.

“They will come, Momma. Austin said they would.”

“Sometimes things come up. Emergency things.”

“Austin will come,” he insisted.

“Right. It’s lunchtime. How about we make some macaroni?”

“I’m still building my doghouse. Hey, you know what?”

“What?”

“If Justice can’t fit in it, we can use it when we get our puppy.”

“I never said we were going to get a puppy.”

“But you like Justice. We could get one just like him.”

“Sweetie—”

“I’d take care of him. I’d feed him and take him for walks—”

The doorbell rang and he jumped up, nearly stumbling in his haste to get to the door.

Eva pulled him up short. “Wait.”

“It’s Austin. I know it is!”

“We always look before we open the door.” She glanced through the peephole, saw Daniel Heppner standing on the porch.

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