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“This is Duke, better known as the military-dog school flunky. He thinks everything’s a game, even bombs.”
“My kind of guy.”
She laughed as she stood. “Figures.”
Kade’s teammate jogged backward. “I’m going to keep going.”
“Catch you later, man.” Kade took the leash dangling over the woman’s shoulder and hooked it to the dog’s collar, then held out his hand. “Kade Church.”
“Lieutenant Harper Jansen.”
“Nice to meet you, LT.”
He walked with her back to her house, one she shared with another woman, a civilian. After that, they’d crossed paths several times, and one day he’d invited her to a party he and his roommate were throwing.
Over time, he and the lieutenant became friends. When he learned that she loved horror and action movies, they’d started a movie night. For the next year after meeting her, they’d been best friends. Nothing more.
They were both planning to leave the Army around the same time, her a few months before him. She’d promised to come get her dog as soon as she returned home from her Peace Corps stint.
Then she’d died.
Since her promise to come get the dog ended with her death, Duke had become his. When he’d learned Harper had died, he’d wrapped his arms around her dog and cried against his fur. But she wasn’t dead, as it turned out.
He wanted answers, and he was going to get them.
