Unleashed: Case of the Shepherd's Pie by Erik Schubach

Author:Erik Schubach [Schubach, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Published: 2019-10-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9 – Snuck Out

Two black and whites joined me as I pulled out of the parking garage a block up. Flannery informed me that the entire 19th was mobilized, and the Commander told him to take point on it with me until he could finish his break and officially assign it to someone, in say... two hours?

The Commander was good people and he was giving me a window before he was obligated to pull me from the case. I knew he'd give it to Flannery at that time.

I set a two-hour timer for myself then growled. I'd eat a quarter of that time just getting up to Yonkers. I punched the steering wheel, to get the pit in my stomach to receded. I couldn't let my concern for my wayward wife consume me. I needed to keep focused and work this systematically so that nothing was missed.

If you would have told me just a couple of years ago that a contrary little girly girl dog walker could have tied my heart in knots every time I saw her, I would have thought you nuts. But now, I can't imagine myself without her royal brashness. I actually like the person I am when I'm with her.

Cal whined and I glanced at him staring out the windshield. I reached out and scrubbed his ears as I reassured him, “I know boy, we'll find her.” Then added, “She can take care of herself.”

I had to grin at the fuzzy man. I had never thought I was a dog person, but I love Calvin like a son, and I find time to say hi to almost every dog I see when I'm out now. Oh lord, Fin's infected me.

A bit later, I found myself smirking as I held my breath while I drove over the river on the Henry Hudson, siren wailing and lights flashing. It was something my dad and I would do every time we left Manhattan, we tried to hold our breath the whole way across. I could never do it as a kid, but I could make it on the shorter bridges like this now as an adult.

That got me thinking again about dad making an effort to be part of my life again. Finnegan is always telling me, “I bet if you think about it, you shared a lot of happy times with him too, it's not all defined or can be erased by a fit of stupidity on his part.” The pipsqueak was right, but I'm not about to admit it or her head would swell three sizes larger.

He was a good dad up until, well up until he wasn't. It was shocking to me that he had so much hate and intolerance in him when I came out. I know he grew up in a different time than me, but that can't be an excuse. Fin pointed out that he must be coming to terms with his own bigotry and seeing it was wrong if he is making an effort now to change, he just needs time.

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