She stood and started to look around until she started to track a path through the wall.
“Matt’s back!” Her tail started wagging, and Liz was happy that she didn’t have one of her own. It would’ve been wagging even more than Aster’s.
It took him nearly fifteen minutes to get to them, during which Regina made ever-increasingly acerbic remarks, but neither of them let that put a damper on their excitement. It had been nearly half a year since Matt left.
When the door opened, Matt had a bouquet of flowers in one hand and an ice cream cake in the other.
Liz leaned into a hug and enjoyed his scent while Aster jumped up and tunneled into Matt’s neck on the other side.
“I’m glad you’re back.”
“Glad to be back. It was fun, but I missed you.”
Aster yipped her own greeting, “You were gone for
