Duke woke with a start after feeling a fist crash against his jaw again. He was starting to think of it as the world’s worst alarm clock in history and he used to live next to a farm that had the biggest rooster you have ever seen. Right now he would give anything to hear the little prick start crowing like he needed to wake he whole block again.
“Rise and shine sweetheart.” Laurent was grinning at him as he turned on what felt like a spotlight that wanted to compete with the sun.
Duke squinted into the blaze and answered with what had become his own reply every time they played this same game. “f**k you too sunshine.”
“Well at least you are consistent. I have had others in that chair that would break in an instant, and
