Gabriel
“I don’t know how to thank you. You’ve always been here to listen, and you have never made me feel like a lesser man, even when I was a total asswipe. I don’t think I would have made it this far without you.”
Sassy’s ears swiveled at the sound of my voice, and her playful floppy lips nibbled at the sleeve of my coat. She looked at me with those calm, liquid brown eyes that seemed to look right past my outsides and into my insides.
She looked straight into the mister that I kept barely restrained on the inside. And she accepted me anyway. She saw my ugly, and still nudged my chest with her nose, demanding I scratch that itchy spot under her forelock.
The days were getting warmer. The residents were now starting to boil sap into maple syrup. The sweet smell drifted on the air. Ch
