Chapter 36

She came to investigate, her black nose twitching comically when she got close, and then those piercing blue eyes gave him a distinctly get-on-with-it-human look.

Laughing, he gave her a couple of the treats that felt a bit soft in his fingers, but luckily not icky. They didn’t smell too much either, which was also nice. “Okay, go on, then. Daddy will bring you toys in a bit,” Kaos said, then flushed red at the thought of the word “daddy” in context with Padraig.

He didn’t have a daddy-kink thing at all, but somehow….

The back door opened. “Here you two are. Come on, girl. Look at what I have here!”

Luckily Padraig was completely concentrated on the puppy and not Kaos, who couldn’t have looked him in the eye if he’d wanted to right then.

Instead, Kaos sat in one of the porch chairs and watched as Padraig and the puppy frolicked around the large backyard. The ground was frozen now, and there had been snow already. Luckily not much yet, but he expected to see more soon.