Rory’s Rose by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773360621
Publisher: Valley Publishing
Published: 2018-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Louise woke up with a start. She lay still, figuring out what noise she had heard. It sounded like an air-conditioning system on steroids. She sat up and groaned. Her body ached in places she hadn’t felt in a long time, and she realized she was sleeping in her office.

Almost immediately all the memories of the previous night came flooding back. She stood up and slowly walked to the bathroom to wash her face. With that done, she stepped out to face whatever nightmare was going on in the remains of her clinic. She was pleasantly surprised to find Ice standing not very far away from her door and issuing orders. She was yelling over the blowers of some kind of an air-recirculating system. Louise stared at the large machines and shook her head, then sidled up to Ice and said, “What the heck is that?”

Ice gave a start, not realizing Louise had come out of her office. Then Ice smiled and said, “To clean out the air.”

“Oh, good. What time is it?” Louise asked, brushing her hair off her forehead. “I must have slept hard. I still feel groggy.” Avoiding the big machines, she stepped out to the front of the clinic with Ice at her side.

“At least out here we can talk,” Ice said with a laugh.

Louise looked around, delighted to see the deputies were gone and no crime scene tape or anything else filled the early morning light. “So once these machines are gone, the clinic can operate again?”

Ice nodded. “There wasn’t much left in the way of gas particles. They do dissipate fairly quickly, but this is just to make sure everybody’s good. We don’t want anything to hurt the animals.”

Louise smiled. “It’s nice to know you guys are animal lovers too.”

“All of us are,” Ice admitted. “Bringing in those puppies was a bad idea.”

Louise chuckled. “Right. I’m sure you guys are keeping two at least.”

Ice shook her head. “Levi’s pretty resistant to the idea,” she admitted. “Not because he doesn’t love puppies, but he figures it’ll be nothing but trouble with everybody there. We don’t want the dogs playing favorites.”

“They will play favorites, and they will bond with whoever loves them. … They’ll probably end up being closest to Alfred. He’ll be the one in charge of food.”

“Which also means Bailey,” Ice said. “And she’s already a big softie.”

“I think you all are, in your own way,” Louise said, following Ice outside to the parking lot. “Any update on the rest of this mess?”

Then she realized Levi’s men and more deputies plus policemen swarmed the main road. She stopped and stared. “What happened here?”

In a sober voice Ice quickly brought Louise up to speed.

Louise shook her head. “Oh, my God, both the prisoners and the deputies?”

“The two deputies are alive, but one’s in bad shape. We are not sure if he’ll pull through. He’s in surgery right now. The other one is in the emergency room. He took a hit high on his shoulder and one to the chest that missed his vitals.

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