A lonely trucker almost passed the starving dog in the storm-then his headlights caught what the animal was hiding under its body…

mom was holding him. There were balloons.” Luke swallowed. “He said I didn’t bring one because nobody had one. Then at recess he said maybe my real mom left me because I cried too much.”

Hank’s hand tightened around the rag. The anger came fast and hot, but he had spent enough years behind a wheel to know that the first swerve was often the one that continue reading …