At first he nearly drove past the pickup like everyone else.
His shift had been exhausting, the radio had been crackling nonstop for hours, and paperwork was waiting back at the station.
But something about the stillness beside the truck tugged at him.
It wasn’t the vehicle.
It was the dog.
Grant slowed the cruiser and pulled onto the shoulder, gravel crunching beneath the tires as cold wind whipped across the empty stretch of highway. The temperature had dropped well below twenty degrees during the night, and frost clung to everything from road signs to the brittle weeds along the ditch.
The dog didn’t move when the patrol car stopped.
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