Triumph Above All novel

Her gaze soon wandered from the retrievers. “Daddy! That doggie there looks good too, the one with blue eyes! Oooh, that one with long fur is very cute, it looks like a little old man!”

Lola kept looking here and there; if given a choice, she would have taken home every dog she saw.

Skylar gently stroked his daughter’s hair and said with a touch of resignation, “Sweetheart, you’re only allowed to pick one doggie, alright? One that you like best.”

In all honesty, his fortune was so vast that it was entirely possible for him to buy one of every dog breed in the world. Buying every dog in this facility would barely make a dent in his finances. However, Lola was still a child in the process of growing up, and there were some important life lessons that she needed to understand.

One of these lessons was that she had to learn how to make trade-offs for something she wanted.

Lola nodded vigorously when she heard what Skylar said. Turning her gaze back to the dogs in the pens, she looked them over again even more intently than before.

merely waited patiently for

one direction and asked softly,

if it was about to die and did not appear to be more than a month old. It had suffered a very serious injury to its leg, which was still bleeding. The pup must have been trampled on earlier when the dogs were lunging at the sides of the pens. Sadly, it was probably not the only

its head with great difficulty, it looked piteously in her

puppy was trying to tell the little girl that it did not wish to leave this world so

the poor creature, and tears sprang to her eyes. Tugging at Skylar’s hand, she asked, “Daddy, the poor doggie’s hurt. Can we make it better, please?” What she meant was that she wanted Skylar to take the

pill out of the pendant around his neck and crushed it into powder.

Slowly, it extended its tongue and began licking at the powder on Skylar’s fingertips until it was

twice, then told Lola, “Don’t worry, sweetheart. The doggie will get better very

doggie won’t die now?”