To Kill a Labrador by Kassandra Lamb

Author:Kassandra Lamb [Lamb, Kassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: misterio press LLC

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“Aw, Marcia,” Dexter yelled from the living room. “He’s jest a young un.”

“Is Buddy okay?” I called out from my spot on the deck. I was under strict orders to stay put.

“I don’t see him.”

My heart stopped.

“Wait, he’s under the couch,” Dexter called out.

My chest swelled with parental pride—that was one smart dog—even as my brain struggled with the logistics of an eighty-pound dog somehow getting under a couch that was five inches off the floor.

The living room erupted in snapping and thrashing sounds. I prayed like crazy that the sounds were the gator fighting the big stick thingie with the loop on the end that Dexter carried, and not the gator eating Dexter or one of the dogs.

Dexter also had a pistol with him. “Tranquilizer darts,” he’d huffed out as we’d run from the motel back to my house.

More thrashing. Dexter was still alive. I could hear him cursing a blue streak.

“Get outta the way. I’m bringing him out!”

I was in the middle of my backyard before I had time to think. My feet had apparently processed Dexter’s words faster than my brain had.

The gate! I ran to open it just as Dexter backed out the back door, a thrashing mass of lizard on the other end of the loop thingie, which was now firmly attached to the gator’s jaws. My bistro table went flying.

I threw the gate open, then ran to Dexter’s truck at the curb in front of my house. I didn’t want to be anywhere near that creature.

But by the time Dexter came through the gate, he was practically dragging the gator behind him. “Tranq I shot him with finally took hold,” Dexter said through huffs and puffs of exertion. “Don’t like to tranq ’em lest I have to. But I didn’t want him gettin’ ahold of one of yer dogs.”

“Thanks so much, Dexter!”

I was practically in tears. Now that the danger was over, my knees turned to jelly. I grabbed for the truck’s door handle to hold myself up.

A soft woof came from the backyard.

Crapola! How could I forget the dogs?

I raced back around the corner of the house. Buddy was standing in the gate opening, a flash of Lacy’s white tail behind him.

Sinking to my knees beside the big black dog, I threw my arms around him and sobbed out my relief.

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