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He pushed hionna run soet stressed So helps with it, and I can keepthe bottle around in his hands before tossing it towards the trashcan that was off tothen," I joked
A smirk broke out across his face as his eyes twinkled witha little fitter froasped and slapped his shoulder, chuckling because I kneas talking about the night we met and how I had drunkenly ran away froled, whichand I’ll see you in class this afternoon"
"See ya, little rebel," he called as he turned and jogged off towards the open field again
I chuckled, shakingsquad, knowing I was going to be in trouble for sneaking off like I had
The visit to see Chester after school leftAlthough he was a lot better than last ti around His little tail wagging as alked in was the only thing that made him seem more like his old self The vet had said that he was still onhiht as a precaution, but that we could pick hi him in there had almost broken my heart, but he was better off with the experts for now
Alex hadn’t really said much since we arrived at the ani, silent type; he would be hurting inside and not showing it no doubt I sat in the car on the way ho if he blamed me like I blamed myself After all, the person hurt Chester because of uilt of that was slowly eating me up inside
As we pulled up into our driveway, the door opened on the brown Sedan that was parked on the street outside our house DI Neeson s thereeted warmly as I climbed out and crossed the front yard to her car
"Hi Have you been waiting long?" I asked, nodding at the newspaper that was strewn across her front seat where she’d obviously been sat for a while
She waved her hand dis in her pocket and bringing out three bunches of keys "Let’s go inside and put the kettle on, I have so up to grip uy is? Have you arrested hi her hand towards the house again "Let’s talk inside"
I gulped For soed behind as the police lady and Alex both headed to the house, using the new keys to open the door I hesitated at the door, for soo in The house was too quiet After seeing Chester in the veterinary hospital, still so weak, I couldn’t help butht to the kitchen, so I stopped in the hallway, steelingto confir to tell ht now and that it was all over? Or was that grim expression on her face for some other reason?
"Maisie, want coffee?" Alex shouted froet it over with Taking a couple of deep breaths, I forcedtheratefully I took a lot of sugar in ht now
DI Neeson looked between the two of us slowly "I’ve had your dog’s toxicology reports coh today It has confirested rat poison"
I groaned and closedIt meant that their course of treat rat poison had been the right course of action Noe just had to hope that he got better and suffered no ill effects from it as a result
"I’ve been to the clinic today, and apparently the type that he ingested is the arden centre or supero on really Lab tests on the grease proof paper that we found in your yard show that it contained some sort of raw beef and also showed traces of the same substance From that we can conclude that this definitely wasn’t just an accident and that your dog somehow found the poison hi it to hihtened my jaw as a little whimper left my lips I didn’t want to think about it, about so Chester eating it