CHAPTER 9- Pandora -
Penny’s still eating when Matiu returns. With her toast in one hand and her coffee in the other, she buzzes him up with her elbow. Draining her coffee, she pops the mug in the sink. Then, the last of her toast still in her hand, she opens the door. Cerberus bounds in, leaping playfully on Penny, his paws reaching nearly to her shoulders. It’s just as well she’d finished her coffee.
Laughing, Penny holds her toast out of reach. “Hey, you big oaf. I’m finally clean and you have to go and jump on me with these dirty great mitts. Come on, off me now. Sit.”
Obediently, the dog drops to its haunches, his dark eyes fixed on Penny’s corner of toast. Penny waves the crust across her body. The dog’s eyes follow the movement.
“Oh well, there’s the truth of it. And here I was
