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“Doesn’t matter who it is We need to be careful” He pressed the button of the radio “This is Chance Reynolds There’s a stranger at Kaylyn Anderson’s front door Can soht away?”

Dylan Strange’s voice came back, “Chance, we have a team about a quarter mile from you They’re on their way now”

Another knock on the door

“Come with me, now” He put his arun?”

“Yes It’s in the top drawer of my dresser”

“I don’t think we’ll need it, but I’ll get it just in case”

As his heart jackhaar Hearing Chance on the radio had filled him with dread

He reached into his jacket and touched the handle of his pistol The familiar talisman didn’t work to calm his fears Blind or not, if he and Emmett arrived and found someone had hurt Kaylyn or Chance, he would use his other senses to locate the bastard and eun into the fucker

The roar of the engine told Jaris that E his truck to the hway and onto the dirt road that led to Kaylyn’s house

“Jaris, I see the sheriff,” Emmett informed him “He’s already here with several other officers Kaylyn and Chance are fine They’re talking to Nicole on the porch”

He let out a breath of relief “What about the stranger?”

“Jason is talking to the guy by the squad car” Eht’ve been a false alarm”

“We’ll see” Jaris exited the cab with Sugar, heading the direction he could hear Kaylyn’s voice He had to be sure she was really okay

“Oh, Jaris, you’re never going to believe this” Kaylyn grabbed his hand and squeezed “Mr Bayless has four dogs that are already trained They just need one week of our training So we’ll have dogs for our people We won’t have to delay a thing”

The exuberance in her voice was clear, but he wasn’t convinced