Straight from the Heart by Saxon Bennett & Layce Gardner

Author:Saxon Bennett & Layce Gardner [Bennett, Saxon & Gardner, Layce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, series, Police
Publisher: Square Pegs Ink
Published: 2017-05-26T23:00:00+00:00

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Rascal was the first one through door when Parker and Amy arrived.

“Meet my birthday present!” Amy exclaimed. “His name is Rascal. I hope it’s okay for him to come inside.”

“Of course it is,” Steph said.

While Amy oohed and ahhed over the decorations, Rascal took it upon himself to meet and greet all the humans. He sniffed everything—feet, legs, butts, crotches. He saved Rosa for last. With his tail wagging a hundred miles a minute, he ran over to Rosa, sniffed her wheels, then he gently put his paw on her leg and his head in her lap.

“I think he likes me,” Rosa said. She rubbed his silky ears.

Rascal’s heavy tail thumped the hardwood floor.

“Sure he does,” Amy said. “He knows good people when he sees them.”

“He’s awful sweet for such an ugly hound,” Bernie observed.

“Isn’t that what your last girlfriend said about you?” Millie teased.

Bernie guffawed. “I’m not all that sweet.”

Rosa asked, “Where’d you get him?”

“I got him at the shelter,” Parker said. “They had him scheduled for…,” she continued in a whisper, “you know.”

Rosa stroked his head. “He’s a nice dog.” She lifted Rascal’s head and looked into his big, brown eyes. “You’re a good boy, aren’t you?” In answer, Rascal licked her face.

Rosa laughed and wiped off the dog slobber with her sleeve.

“Sorry about that. He loves to kiss people,” Amy said, apologetically.

“Yeah, he kisses like my first girlfriend,” Rosa said.

Rascal moved to the coffee table of presents and stuck his nose up to each and every one. Parker grabbed his collar and forced him away from the gifts. “Sorry if we were late,” Parker said. “We had to stop at PetSmart and get him a few things.”

“Uh, yeah, like a lot of things. He is now well-equipped,” Amy said. “I even got these cute little poopy bags.” Amy pulled a bright yellow plastic bag out of her back pocket. “It has little paw prints on it.”

“It’s what lesbians do,” Parker said. “We don’t have kids, so we adopt fur kids.”

Millie joked, “Just be sure to keep the dog poop away from Mabel. You know how she loves to torment Edna with dog poop.”

“Where is Mabel anyway?” Amy asked.

“Clara and Mabel will be over as soon as they finish up with the bake sale,” Millie said.

“What bake sale?” Steph asked.

Millie explained, “We had to think of a way to raise money to buy more ammo. We almost did a car wash, but the thought of a bunch of eighty-year-old women trotting around in bikinis didn’t seem wise. So, we did a bake sale instead.”

“Wait. Back up a minute,” Rosa said. “You’re raising money for what?”

“Ammo,” Millie said. “You know, bullets. For our neighborhood watch group, Millie’s Militia. None of us realized that ammo was so expensive. Did you know that it costs twenty dollars for fifty rounds? And that’s not even for the hollow points. How’s a senior citizen on social security supposed to be able to afford ammo these days?” Millie shook her head in disgust.

“I should petition the NRA,” Bernie said.

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