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“Come on, honey. You gotta let me help you.” Garrick liked to think he was
good at sweet-talking, but his track record of success was in serious
jeopardy here.
Woof. The dog danced away from him again. Balanced on crutches, he
was limited in his ability to lunge for her. A year ago, his fast reflexes
would have made his words irrelevant, but now he pitched his voice low
and gentle.
“Sit? Can you sit?”
Miraculously, the dog plopped her fairly sizable behind down on his
porch. She appeared to be some happy mix of pit, rottie and lab with a short
brownish coat and white and tan markings on her nose and chest. No collar,
which was alarming enough, but it was the bloody paw prints on his porch
and scrape on her side that had him truly concerned.
He took a few steps toward her, but she quickly backed up. Damn it. It
was probably the crutches that were scaring her.
“Me too, dog. Me too.” Industrial gray with heavy forearm cuffs, the
crutches made a heavy sound with each step. They were a necessity that
made his life far easier than the underarm variety had, but he couldn’t deny
that they were probably intimidating to the scared dog. He needed a better
plan. She was probably only fifty or sixty pounds, but he wasn’t going to be
able to even grab her scruff, let alone lift her.
“Can you stay?”
The dog cocked her head like she was actually listening, which made
Garrick laugh for the first time since discovering her barking at his front
door. Obedient even if skittish, she stayed in place while he went back into
the house. He traded the crutches for his wheelchair and retrieved his phone
from the dining table.
Hell. He hated needing help, had needed so much of it in the past year,
but he couldn’t let his pride get in the way of helping a wounded animal.
His neighbor Shirley had dogs, two of them, little white yappy things. She’d
have a leash and know a vet to call. She didn’t answer when he dialed her
number, but he could see two cars in her driveway. Probably had company,
and he hated interrupting, but it really couldn’t be avoided. If she wasn’t
home, he’d have to try another friend or his dad, but this would be quicker.
Pocketing the phone, he rolled back out to the porch where the dog
waited right where he’d left her.
“Good girl,” he praised, but when he scooted closer, she backed up again.
“Okay, okay. I’m getting help. Stay.”
He used the wooden side ramp his friends had built for him to navigate
the two porch steps, then zipped down the driveway and across the cul-desac to Shirley’s house, a neat little seventies ranch, same basic size as his
own. Hers was a friendly shade of lilac, while he’d gone for gray. It was an
older neighborhood of smaller homes but decent-sized yards, and close to
both a park and Garrick’s favorite sports bar, where he used to hang out all
the time
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