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The sheer audacity of his parents was overwhelming.
“Only, when you went looking, Maxie wasn’t there?” I asked, feeling the heartache pressing down
on me again.
God, the man had suffered so much.
How much more could he take?
“I’ve been searching for the dog ever since,” he said. “But the animal shelter that found Maxie a
home doesn’t really care about my plight. They feel sorry, but unfortunately, there is not a lot they can do since the dog was adopted into a loving home.”
I thought about that for a long second, then offered, “I could get a friend to help. She’s really good with computers.”
He looked up at me with a frown on his face.
“I…” He blew out a breath. “I can barely take care of myself. What if I find him?”
“What if you found him and wanted him?” I asked. “What if he would help you heal?”
He didn’t have anything to say to that, and I took it as a sign to mind my own business.
However, it was really bothering me, what his parents did.
Not only had they not come to see him after he was found alive, but now they’d gotten rid of his
dog?
That was just the last straw.
I was going to have to find these people and give them a piece of my mind.
“Ready?” Riel asked.
I watched him come out of the room shirtless, and my breath hitched.
I’d seen him shirtless before, but that had been in a clinical setting.
That’d also been when I was very, very still firmly hooked up in the ‘this is my fiancée’s best
friend’ category.
That line was blurring the longer and longer that Riel was a part of my life.
“Yes,” I nearly choked.
Riel’s eyes caught mine just before he pulled his shirt on over his head, the fabric breaking our
eye contact.
And hey, at least when he caught me looking, I was staring at his eyes and not his abs.
Or other parts that I refused to admit that I was looking at.
Fifteen minutes later, we both arrived at the diner nearest the police station.
Riel was right.
