Retired Ranger Shut Everyone Out and Refused to Let Go of His Dog

“You’re the reason Pax is still here,” he said when she came in, not looking at her, looking at the window.
“You’re the reason you’re still here,” she said. “Pax just kept the lights on.”
He was quiet for a moment. “There was a guy in my unit,” he said, “third deployment. We called him Ghost, not his real name, just what we called him. He had this way continue reading …