Once Bitten

Part Thirty-Two

-Mae's P.O.V.-

Riley stood beside me as I put my hand on the knob. I twisted it and pushed open the door. Whatever was by the door ran and hid behind the desk in the back of the room. In a computer chair was a dead woman she looked to have died within the past few days. We held a hand over our noses and went closer. We saw that in her lap she had a gun in her hand I went behind the desk and in the shadows I could see two eyes looking at me. Then slowly out came a skinny black quivering puppy. I quickly put my gun away and reached for it and it licked my hand. Riley was on the other side looking thru the cabinets. I held the puppy up and looked over to Riley. "Look." He turned away from what he was doing and came over to me. "Aww.. he looks like my Max, my dog that ran away when all of this happened, Max was older though this ones just a baby. He's a Pitbull mix it looks like." He stroked him. "Looks like we've got a new friend." He joked. We walked out of the room shutting the door behind us, and picking up our backpacks. "Are we done here?" I asked. "I believe so." We headed outside and got the horses, hanging our backpacks from their saddles. I handed the puppy to Riley as I got up on Buckie. He handed him back to me and I set him on my lap, keeping one arm on him and the other on the reins, and kicked for Buckie to move and headed back home with Riley following not too far behind on Ace.