The puppies were adorable balls of energy. Kaos was sprawled in the dogs’ room in Mia’s house, and all six were crawling on top of him, licking him wherever they could find bare skin. Kaos laughed out loud as he tried to hide his face with his hands, and one of them dove right to his ear. He squealed and giggled like a little kid, making Mia and Padraig laugh at him instead of the puppies.
“It seems they like you,” Mia said, smiling at him when he finally sat up from his puppy pile.
“Yeah, that’s a fair assessment, I think,” Kaos replied, grabbing a particularly rambunctious puppy when it tried to climb to his shoulder. “Come on now, buddy, let’s not do that.” He held on to the puppy until it calmed a bit, then scratched it behind the ears. “That’s better.”
“So, which ones did you say w
