Chapter Thirteen
Lana tucked the ballpoint pen into her loose bun. Her notepad was stiff in her back pocket. She walked the grounds of the Purple Heart Ranch under the bright rays of the new day, not bothering to step into the shaded areas. She had nothing to hide today.
In the front yard of the big house that she’d been summarily dismissed from the other day was Dylan Banks. The young soldier ran after a group of small children. His prosthetic leg didn't hamper him as the young ones raced around him. A pack of dogs wove between the man and children. The dogs were a ragtag bunch of patchy fur, missing limbs, and prosthetics of their own. All of the fur creatures looked as though they’d known their own war zone. But every one of them grinned wide, tongues lolling as though they each had t
