He thought he was stopping for a stray dog in the snow-until he saw what she was hiding beneath her body

noticed while changing the bedding. One moment she was nosing blindly against Scout’s belly; the next, her eyelids parted into cloudy blue slits that seemed to take in nothing and everything at once.

Cal stopped with a towel in his hand.

Scout lowered her nose to the puppy’s face and breathed her in. The pup wobbled, blinked again, and made a tiny sound continue reading …