hollow, that the dark circles beneath his blue eyes were almost gone. That look of apprehension around adult men-always excepting Jordan-wasn’t completely gone, but there was a little more confidence in the way he moved.
Ben saw it, too, and again thought of David. Maybe with the help of Sarah and his friends, Lex would be okay. Maybe someday Lex would find something in life that would mean as much to him as search and rescue work had meant to David.
When he had worn down from playing with the dogs, Lex sat down beside them.
Ben said, “I hear you gave a lot of help to Jordan. Got people to write letters, things like that.”
“I had to. With me and Jordan-he’s my friend, but it’s more than friendship. It’s-what was that word you said, about the dogs? I don’t think people have it so often, but they should.”
Ben frowned in concentration, but Frank remembered it first.
“Devotion.”
