Chapter 3Working from home, Bear was determined to finish in plenty of time for slimming group. He’d put in so much overtime recently, his firm owed him. So, even though there were still several open tickets on his docket, Bear signed out of his work machine at four on the dot, rolled back his chair, and turned to see what BJ was up to. He groaned. The red setter was in the process of pulling the blankets out of his basket. He did this every so often when he thought they needed washing.
“Can’t they wait? If I put them in the machine now, I won’t get them dry until tomorrow.” One look out the window confirmed it had started raining. Under his breath, Bear added, “Not that you sleep in there at night anyway.”
BJ whined and put on his pleading expression.
“Don’t start.”
BJ loped over, sat
