Chapter 23Kyle was used to being alone on Christmas. He’d hoped for better this year, but…sometimes that was the way it went.
He did have the cats—now that they were warming up to him—and Def to keep him company, though, and that was something.
He dressed in casual clothes—later he’d put on the suit he brought along as being more suitable for the holiday—and bounced down the stairs. The yellow Lab was already waiting at the bottom of the staircase, his tail wagging, a slow, luxurious plume of an arc. “Come on, Def. We’ll take a quick walk before breakfast.”
Def was a good boy and completed his business quickly. He could have been hungry, or he could have just been as curious to see what Santa had brought him as Kyle was.
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He fed the animals, but he couldn’t wait to open his gif
