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Once he was done yakking, Radar came to my side, head hung.
When I turned around to head back inside, I dropped like a stone.
I never even saw it coming.
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Trance
Lighting streaked across the skies, and thunder boomed, shaking my cruiser with its intensity.
Looking up, I could see the clouds moving at a fast pace. Which meant we were in for one hell of a storm.
Then I remembered that I’d taken my coat out of the car since it was covered in mud from the previous storm. Viddy had washed it for me, and hung it up on the rack just inside the laundry room door, but I’d left it there each and every time I passed it.
Luckily, I was only two, three minutes tops from the house. That would’ve sucked to not have it today. If I hurried, I wouldn’t even be late.
“Damn!” I yelled as another streak of lightening lit up the sky, scaring the absolute shit out of me.
I pulled a bitch in the middle of the road, and pulled up to my driveway just in time to see every single light in the entire subdivision go off.
“Wonderful,” I muttered under my breath.
Leaving the truck running, I locked the doors and made a beeline for the front door.
I didn’t use it often, so once I made it under the overhang of the roof, I had to search for the key.
I was lucky I did, or I would’ve never heard my wife scream.
After one heart wrenching second, I decided to let Kosher out of the truck, and then I called in backup.
“I need some fucking help. I’m at home.” I said, and then pressed the little orange button that I’d never pressed in my entire career as an officer of the law.
The button was simple. Press it in case of emergency.
It wasn’t easy to press, which surprised me. In all the years of having that button, never once had I tried to press it.
Kosher was vibrating with tension at my side as we walked around the side of the house.
I’d been gone for no less than six minutes.
It wasn’t long. But it was long enough to have the lights go out, and someone to get in.
I don’t consciously remember that walk around the house.
All I remembered was my heart pounding, and my vision honing. The backdoor was wide open, but there was a large black lump just on the outside of the porch that I knew was Radar. My gut told me it was him without even needing to confirm it.
Stepping over his lifeless body, I came to a stop, crouched down low, just inside the back door.
I listened and concentrated on the sounds of the house.
Nothing was coming from the room off the back of the kitchen, but I cleared it out of habit rather than desire to do so before I pied the corner of the living room.
‘Pieing’ a corner is a strategic move where the only thing showing when you check around the corner is the barrel of your gun.
Once I confirmed there was nothing there, I turned the corner and pied the corner to the hallway that led to the two back bedrooms.
I’d done so well, not flipping out. I’d managed to shut my mind down and stop myself from reacting like every cell in my body urged me to do.
