Muzzled (2012)
“Tanya’s rant indicted if she’d been with me at the time, another of Germaine’s appendages would have copped a similar serve.
It was four hours later—close to 7 pm. The rain had stopped but a strong gusty wind rattled the loose window in the laundry. The one I meant to get fixed and only remembered on windy nights when tradesmen were tucked up at home, downing a couple of pints and fixing their own loose windows. After working and feeding my racing team, I’d settled them down for the night and g...iven my best friend a ring.
Of course the phone call lasted all of two minutes. What the blue-blazes!, had been Tanya’s immediate reaction when I told her about someone trying to kill Scott and then she’d promptly invited herself over for dinner and was standing at my front door with two enormous steaks—before I could even warm up the grill.
Ben wasn’t coming for dinner. He’d rung to tell me Pot O’ Gold, his favorite brood bitch, had decided to go into labor five days early, and nothing short of an earthquake would shift him from Goldie’s side until every squirming puppy was safely lined up against the warm milk bar.MoreLess
It was four hours later—close to 7 pm. The rain had stopped but a strong gusty wind rattled the loose window in the laundry. The one I meant to get fixed and only remembered on windy nights when tradesmen were tucked up at home, downing a couple of pints and fixing their own loose windows. After working and feeding my racing team, I’d settled them down for the night and g...iven my best friend a ring.
Of course the phone call lasted all of two minutes. What the blue-blazes!, had been Tanya’s immediate reaction when I told her about someone trying to kill Scott and then she’d promptly invited herself over for dinner and was standing at my front door with two enormous steaks—before I could even warm up the grill.
Ben wasn’t coming for dinner. He’d rung to tell me Pot O’ Gold, his favorite brood bitch, had decided to go into labor five days early, and nothing short of an earthquake would shift him from Goldie’s side until every squirming puppy was safely lined up against the warm milk bar.MoreLess
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