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I never wanted to assume the worst would happen or that someone who was connected to Graham’s death would actually find me here at Banks’s house, but with the noise I heard outside the front door, I had no other option.
It was clear someone was attempting to break into the house. My only thought, my only concern, was getting upstairs to grab Rhys and my phone to call for help.
But I never made it up more than four or five stairs when the front door swung open, and my eyes were pulled in that direction.
That’s when I stopped dead in my tracks.
Henry.
Henry came barreling into the house with Banks holding the door wide open for him.
I blinked my eyes several times as I stared at Henry, unable to believe what I was seeing.
He was here.
My dog was here.
And he hadn’t yet noticed me.
I flew down the stairs, stopped, and called, “Henry.”
He turned his body around, saw me, and came running. I was all but tackled to the ground as he showed his love, jumping up and down with his body shaking and tail wagging as he attempted to lick my face.
I burst into tears. “Henry. I missed you so much, boy. Where have you been all this time?”
Henry, obviously, did not respond to me. And it was only after he’d started to calm down that I was able to lift my gaze to Banks and seek out some answers. I was sitting on my ass on the floor at the bottom of the stairs and made no attempt to stand when I asked, “What happened?”
“I got him back for you today, darling.”
My heart.
My heart felt like it was so full to bursting with the love I felt for this man.
“How?”
Banks reached his hand inside the pocket of his jacket and pulled something out. It took me a second, but I finally recognized what he had in his hand.
“That’s the shirt I wore to bed.”
He nodded. “Yeah.”
I studied him. “So, you knew when you left the house this morning that you were going to be rescuing Henry?”
“I did.”
“And the people who had him just let you take him?” I pressed.
Banks moved toward me, shaking his head. When hesat down on the floor beside me, he replied, “Not exactly. I’d been watching the house he was at for the last week. Like clockwork, Henry was taken for a walk in the morning. And throughout the day, he’d be let out, so he could relieve himself. But it was what happened in the evenings that gave me the idea to do what I did.”
“What happened in the evenings?”
“There were frequent visitors to the home where Henry was, and every time someone showed up, he’d always run outside and greet that individual. Granted, it might have been because he recognized the person, but I knew I had to take my chances that he was just the kind of dog who ran out and investigated every person. Now that I think about it, I wonder if he was running out and hoping he’d find you there for him.”
Even though I hated that Henry had been missing for so long, I was relieved to know that the people who had him had been good to him. “At least they took good care of him,” I murmured before peppering kisses to the top of his head.
“Yeah. It’s really a miracle when you think about the other things they were doing,” he noted.
Some of the tension I’d been feeling when I thought someone was breaking into the house made its presence known again. I swallowed hard. “Did you learn anything about Graham?”
