Hadley grabbed the buckets; despite the scarring that might have weakened him, he was large and strong enough to carry them anyway. He followed the cowboy silently, and Wayne did not press him other than the simple question, one that the other canine answered without obvious complaint.
The Labrador mix had been ready to nod along and trade the story of his own past for the new Cavalierite’s, but the last phrase made him stop in his tracks and turn to stare at the dark brown luperci. “Captured,” the young man said, his gruff voice weighing the word with the unspoken questions behind it. There was so much he wanted to confront Hadley about—who had captured him, why, what had happened? However, he was conflicted, not wanting to cause him pain if he wasn’t going to be willing to tell the story.
Shaking his head, Wayne reached the gate to the temporary corral and held it open, ushering Hadley in first before following. Fern immediately trotted up to the mutt with a friendly nicker, but he only nudged her pointedly in the direction of the other man. The chestnut mare gazed at him then moved to Hadley, pressing her nose against one of his shoulders, her flaxen tail flicking behind her as Wayne went to hang some of the buckets on the fence and fill the trough with the rest.
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