A low, guttural growl rolled out from the shadows, freezing him in place. Two yellow eyes, reflecting the light like twin embers, glinted between plastic bags—an animal crouched low, braced aggressively over something hidden. Manny’s hand instinctively tightened on his holster. The creature was large, its silhouette massive and menacing, yet its trembling seemed to betray its ferocity.
He lowered the beam, inch by slow inch, until the light caught a small, pale hand sticking out from beneath the trash. Manny’s breath stopped in his lungs. The enormous dog stood guard over a little child—curled tight, unmoving, and terrifyingly cold. His worst suspicion slammed into him at once: someone hadn’t just abandoned a child here; they had discarded her like refuse.
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