The guard shrugged. “Well, I don’t much like chasing folks, I guess?”
“And we—Justin, the guy I was with, and I—I think we assumed that you were angry about the fact we were kissing.”
The guard’s eyes widened. “You were kissing?” Hunh.” He snorted. “Well, then I guess I’ve just about seen everything now.” He slapped Thom on the back. “But I couldn’t care less who kisses who, that I assure you. I’ll admit to being pissed off that you brought the dog in without tags. Especially when it was standing there being all intimidating and protective, like it was going to take me down if I got too close to the two of you. In this day and age, you don’t get many open areas like this where our four-legged pals can walk around with us. One bad incident and that’ll all be over.”
“Dog was being intimid
