“He’s recovering, but after his injury, he won’t be able to perform at the level a working dog needs to do the job. Quinn will still train him, but he’ll need a family to take care of him and love him.”
She lowered her lashes and then looked up at him again. “Is that what we are? A family?”
“What do you think, Echo?”
Surreptitiously, he handed the dog a box and then gave him the command they’d been practicing for a week.
Echo stood on his back legs and placed his paws on Annabelle. He nudged her with his nose so she would take the small blue box from his mouth. When she did, Kellan gave him another command, then dropped to one knee. Echo plopped to his tummy.
“Go ahead,” he encouraged the dog.
“Woof-woof-woof-woof.”
Annabelle covered her mouth, tears shimmering in her eyes.
“Allow me to translate. In dog-speak, Echo asked if you would marry us?”
“Yes.” A sob escaped, then she threw her arms around him. “Yes, I’ll marry you.”
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Notes
I hope you enjoyed The Viper, the fifteenth book in the COBRA Securities series. Several characters from previous books made appearances in The Viper. If you would like to read their stories, you can find them here:
Logan, Jade and Isabella Bradley from The Fan
Dante, Taylor, Kai and Gracie Costa from Hide and Seek and Kidnapped
Dan and Kaitlyn Bradley from Killer Cuisine
Luke and Layla Colton from Face the Music
Hillary and Reed Steele from Tough as Nails
Sawyer and Harlow Oldham from Hunted
Mason Rossi and Cassidy Swain from Last Dance
About the Author
Velvet Vaughn is the author of The List, The Fan, Committed, Violets are Blue, Trust No One, Hide and Seek, Killer Cuisine, Vigilante, Face the Music, Tough as Nails, Total Surrender, Hunted, Say Goodbye to Melody, Last Dance and The Viper, the first fifteen books in the COBRA Securities series, as well as Saving Santa, and Kidnapped, COBRA Securities Short Stories. In addition, two novellas: A Christmas Miracle and Flying High Christmas are available as stand-alone books or in the anthologies All I Want For Christmas and Yuletide Treasures, respectively. The sixteenth book in the COBRA Securities series, Golden Girl, will be published soon.
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