The K9 Files by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773364568
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2022-10-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 1

Blaze drove his truck down the long stretch of Kentucky highway. He’d been consumed with Solo since he started this trip. She truly was a loner according to her very slim file. She’d been one who bonded the first time easily and less so each time she underwent a handler/trainer change.

After her last handler had walked away from the K9 division, she’d struggled to assimilate into her new situation. As luck would have it, Blaze was heading back home, and that was the dog’s last known location. And then she had taken off, and no one knew what had happened since.

The adopted family had been stalwart in their own defense, saying the dog had not taken to any of them, even though they’d tried hard. Maybe because of that they hadn’t devoted much time to finding her. As far as anyone knew, she was on her own.

Not a good scenario for a loner dog to become more isolated. Blaze’s heart ached for Solo. Blaze understood loneliness all too well.

Blaze picked up his takeout coffee and winced. It was pretty bad. It tasted days old, but it was coffee, and he was still trying to stay awake on this trip. For whatever reason, he’d decided to not tell his father he was coming, and he’d thrown the rest of his stuff in the back of his pickup and hit the road. This was everything he owned, and wasn’t that a shocker at this stage of his life?

When he was only about twenty miles away from his destination, he pulled up at the turnoff and stopped, parking the truck off to the side of the road and hopped out. He studied the area, smiling. It had been a long time, at least ten years, since he’d been here other than visits on leave.

Up ahead was a Mustang convertible on the side of the road. He frowned and walked the hundred yards to a woman looking down at a flat tire. “That looks pretty nasty.” Then he waited for her reaction. To his scar.

“Of course it is,” she said, still staring at the tire, blowing long strands of blond hair back up over her forehead. “Anything I do ends up bad. It could be just a simple flat. It could be that I had a spare in the trunk. It could be that I wasn’t out here alone. And just imagine if I was dating a mechanic—I could call him, and he’d come and pick me up. But, of course, none of that is reality.” She looked at him without one blink and said, “Sorry, I’m not normally this upset. But right now”—she motioned at the tire before returning her hand to her hip—“this is the final straw.”

She didn’t react. Not one iota. How odd. He liked her already. Plus, she felt familiar somehow … “So, what else happened to your day that made this the final straw?”

“It’s not even the whole day. It’s just the last fifteen minutes. I was driving

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