excitement—like he was checking I was still real.
I knelt, wrapped my arms around him, and for the first time, I felt him tremble.
Not fear.
Relief.
“I heard him,” I whispered into his wiry fur. “I heard him, Radar.”
Radar made a sound that wasn’t a bark.
It was almost a sob.
And I knew, with a certainty that made my throat ache, that this dog hadn’t been continue reading …