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In three minutes max, Jim’s phone rang.
“Yeah, that didn’t take long,” he said, answering, “Hello?”
“This is Wendy Adams. I just heard from the shelter that you rescued my Sadie. Can I come to get her now?” She sniffed, obviously distraught.
“Sure, you can get her,” Jim said, reciting their address.
“I live two blocks from you,” she said, brightening up. “I’ll be right there.”
He hung up and sat down next to Oliver and Sadie. “She’s in the neighborhood.”
“We’ll be able to tell if she really wants to go to her,” Oliver said. “You’ll let us know if you want to stay here, won’t you, Sadie?”
Her tail thumped on the leather couch. In ten minutes their buzzer rang. Jim got up and pressed the intercom button.
“It’s Wendy Adams,” a disembodied voice said.
Hearing the voice with perked-up ears, Sadie hopped down from Oliver’s lap and started to whine, turning in circles.
“Ugh, I guess that’s your answer,” Jim said, frowning.
A knock on the door and all hell broke loose. The moment petite Wendy Adams stepped over the threshold, Sadie went nuts, crying and yipping and jumping on her. Wendy dropped to her knees, hugging her dog, sobbing.
Watching the touching reunion, Sadie’s owner had a beautiful and familiar face, and Oliver racked his brain, trying to place her. In jeans and a white sweater, she could be any attractive woman, but he didn’t think so.
“I never thought I’d see her again,” she cried. “Thank you so much for letting me have her back.”
“Of course. It’s not like we would keep your dog,” Oliver said, trying to remember how he knew her.
When Sadie calmed down, Wendy stood back up, and a look of recognition came over her. “Wait, don’t I know you?” She cocked her head from side to side, looking from Oliver to Jim.
“Do you watch football?” Jim asked.
“Oh, wait, I remember now.” She pointed first to Oliver, then to Jim, and back to Oliver. “Head injury, sprained shoulder, head injury. I’m the trauma nurse assigned to the practice facility.”
“Jeez, it’s like your dog called out to us at the shelter,” Oliver said, shaking his head, picturing her in blue scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck.
“Whodathunk?” Jim said, shocked.
“Sadie knew you’d take care of her for me. I can’t believe she was in a cage for a week.”
The men petted Sadie, scratching her behind the ears. “She came right to us, didn’t you, girl?”
“Well, I’ll be forever grateful,” she said, hooking Sadie’s leash to her collar.
“We bought her some toys and a bed, if you want to take them,” Jim said.
“No, you keep them for your next pet,” she said, turning to leave. “I hope I don’t see you again,” she said, grinning. “But if I do, I hope it’s at the dog park.”
“I’ll walk you down,” Oliver said when Jim answered a phone call. “Where were you? The shelter said you went on a medical mission?”
“I do that about once a year. I’m sick of taking vacations alone, so I go with a group of nurses and doctors to different places where we teach in field hospitals.”
“Wow, that’s so giving,” he said, sincerely meaning it. “I don’t like giving up an hour on Saturday for meet and greets with fans.”
“It does sound awful,” she said, laughing.
They left the apartment and stood out in front, talking.
