No Honor Among Thieves: An Ali Reynolds Novella (Kindle Single)
“After years of being married to a county sheriff, Butch Dixon had become accustomed to Joanna’s being summoned to some incident or another in the middle of the night. At first he had made it a point to get up with her and make sure that, wherever she was going, she’d at least have a cup of freshly made coffee along for the ride.
Right now, though, the poor guy was fighting a deadline on his next book and had come to bed barely two hours earlier. “Just a minute,” Joanna whispered into the phone.
In the old days, Joanna would have had to scramble across a pitch-dark bedroom while dodging the prone body of her rescued Australian shepherd, Lady, who had formerly slept as close to Joanna’s side of the bed as possible. Now, though, Lady had put herself in charge of Butch and Joanna’s four-year-old son, Dennis. All her instinctive herding proclivities had been turned full bore on keeping track of the boy. Lady spent all her waking and sleeping hours guarding him devotedly—enough so t...hat both Joanna and Butch worried about what the dog would do with herself in the fall when Dennis went off to pre-kindergarten.MoreLess
Right now, though, the poor guy was fighting a deadline on his next book and had come to bed barely two hours earlier. “Just a minute,” Joanna whispered into the phone.
In the old days, Joanna would have had to scramble across a pitch-dark bedroom while dodging the prone body of her rescued Australian shepherd, Lady, who had formerly slept as close to Joanna’s side of the bed as possible. Now, though, Lady had put herself in charge of Butch and Joanna’s four-year-old son, Dennis. All her instinctive herding proclivities had been turned full bore on keeping track of the boy. Lady spent all her waking and sleeping hours guarding him devotedly—enough so t...hat both Joanna and Butch worried about what the dog would do with herself in the fall when Dennis went off to pre-kindergarten.MoreLess
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