Big Sky Dog Whisperer by M. L. Buchman

Author:M. L. Buchman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Buchman Bookworks, Inc.

Stan and Bertram had crested the ridge to look down on the lake just as Jodie leaned in to kiss Davy Golding.

He froze. Only a quiet snap of his fingers kept Bertram from charging ahead.

The kiss lasted far too long to be casual. Or merely friendly.

He’d been wondering what they were to each other and now he had his answer.

Even after the kiss ended, they sat nose to nose far too long to leave any doubt.

Then as casually as could be, she shed her boots and walked away from Davy and straight into the lake like some mythic water sprite beckoning men to their doom beneath the waves. Jodie Jaffe in shorts had definitely given him problems this morning. How someone only five-six could have legs that long was an absolute mystery. And now, picturing the shorts and that tight t-shirt wet from a swim, all he could—

Stan turned away before he had to watch Davy strip down and follow her in.

Goddamn it to hell. She’d never once indicated that Stan was anything other than a reviled dog trainer. Actually, she had. There had been the moment she’d thanked him for carrying her dog. The moment after she’d raged against his chest. And last night in the truck, stopped under the Henderson’s Ranch sign, they’d had that…moment. He needed a goddamn thesaurus.

Davy had badgered him after they got out of the truck at the kennel building.

I’m a lawyer. I know there was a subtext there. What is it I’m not understanding? He wasn’t quite that blunt, but it was close. He’d thought his territory was under threat from Stan and was trying to piss as far and wide as he could to mark it. Now Stan knew why.

But it was so…wrong!

All of his training told him it was wrong. Davy didn’t understand a single thing about Jodie. Not her strength. Not her determination. Not even the passion with which she attacked life. Jodie Jaffe only had one mode: full-tilt. Sometimes she needed a GPS course correction, but she was more determined than most SEALs—even his former Team 6 mates. It was humbling…and awesome.

But whatever he’d thought, she’d just made it clear that she belonged to Davy Golding. She’d heal her dog and be gone back to Brooklyn faster than a A-10 Warthog jet on a close-fire strafing run.

Fine. He didn’t have time for her anyway.

Dog graduation.

Forty-eight hours.

What had he been thinking, coming up to the lake in the first place? He had just forty-eight hours until the dog handlers arrived to tell him if he’d just wasted three years of his time and a bunch of Mac’s money. Mac had taken a risk on a blown-up, one-armed vet on no more than Altman’s say so.

Now it was up to him to prove that the old man’s trust hadn’t been misplaced. It would kill him to let Mac down. He’d become a second father in so many ways—just as gruff and carelessly kind as Pa had been. Always glad to lend a hand, but just as happy to leave you to flounder a while if you wanted to figure it out yourself.

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