Chapter 4

“Why?” cried the man again, this time leaning forward to rest his head against the dog. The sight was enough to bring Drew to his knees in the icy slop on the road, another piece of his heart breaking. “Whyis there so much cruelty…Why does this happen…” The man whimpered and sniffled, distraught, and Drewcouldn’t blame him. The man stroked the dog. “A love like this…” He shook his head, perhaps too choked up to finish the statement.

“Is…is he okay?” Drew asked, wondering if it might have been a stupid question.

His inquiry seemed to flip a switch in the man, who once again turned to him, this time with pleading etched into the lines on his face. It should have bothered Drew, the way this man’s tears appeared to glow with an inner light, for they were much too far away and at the wrong angle for them to be touched by a streetlight’s radiance, but the nagging thought passed quickly, effortlessly brushed aside by his desire to somehow make this all right.