S.A.V.E. Squad Book 1: Dog Daze by Lauraine Snelling & Kathleen Wright

Author:Lauraine Snelling & Kathleen Wright [Snelling, Lauraine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

A Clue to the Crocs Killer!

Dazed, she heard the girls approaching. “Aneta! He’s going to put the poster back up. Aneta? Aneta!”

Esther shrieked. “Aneta! Lord, help her!”

Yes, please, Lord, Aneta thought, speaking to Him for the first time. Her cheekbone began to throb in beat with other parts of her body awkwardly twisted under too much puppy food. Puppy Pellets did not smell good. Especially when one of the bags had split open and she was nearly swimming in Pellets. Some were in her ear. Trying to push herself up while everyone pulled off bags, several Pellets crushed under her elbow.

Finally, she was free of Puppy Pellets. The girls helped her up and brushed her off. All but two of the puppies, still delighted at the entertainment, had settled down to a lower-voiced grunting and grumbling. The quiet pair raised their heads briefly, appearing too tired to care.

The pet-store man pushed past Gram and the girls to regard the mess. “I hope you’re not thinking to sue me,” he said to Aneta, who was touching her pulsating cheekbone. “You owe me for forty pounds of Puppy Pellets!”

How much does forty pounds of Puppy Pellets cost? Aneta felt her face grow hot, hot, hot. Her Christmas money was long gone. “I am sorry,” she said, backing up. Zeff’s long arm slipped around her. She leaned against him. “I heard the puppies. They did not have water. One of them bit my finger. I jerked my hand back. It hit one of the bags. I fell.”

Cousin Zeff cleared his throat. “Good thing it was you, Aneta, and not one of those tiny little pups.” He inspected the two remaining walls of Puppy Pellets. He nudged one with his toe. That side began to slide. With a quick move, Zeff stopped them from tipping over the wire pen. “Anything could have tipped them over to squash the puppies.”

The pet-store man shook his head. “You dog people.”

Aneta found that curious. Wasn’t he a dog person if he owned a pet store?

Zeff reached for his wallet, gazing at the two quiet puppies, the overturned water dish, and the dirty towel. “I’ll pay for the food,” he said. “No problem. Then I’ll come back later to day and expect to find this pen clean and the water fresh.” He pointed to the quiet puppies. The lawyer tone Aneta knew well entered his voice. “They look sick. What kind of place are you running here?”

The lawyer tone ran in each of The Fam’s voices. Except hers. Each of The Fam were involved somehow in making things right. Gram’s husband and Aneta’s grandfather, “Grand,” was overseas right now, helping a refugee agency deal with some legal thing. Zeff attended college to become another Jasper lawyer. Laura volunteered as a victim’s advocate. Uncle Luke was a retired policeman. He now stepped toward the front of the group.

“There’s not a problem, is there?” he asked mildly. With his short gray hair, Hawaiian shirt, and his big chest that made it hard for his arms to lay flat against his body, he looked like a private detective in a movie.

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