Tangled
Chapter 15
15 Ava: Settling In (I)
Waking up with a dog is both better and worse than waking to an alarm.
Selene starts with a cute little nose bumping against my hand. Then a head burrowing beneath it. Then her entire body on mine, as her dog breath–which smelled particularly fishy–assaults my nose.
She finishes it off with a low, mournful howl, and I
open my eyes with a groan. “I’m up. I’m up. Come on, Selene. You couldn’t let me sleep for fifteen more
minutes?”
Her huff sounds a lot like you slept for six hours, you’ll
be fine to me, but I rub her ears and roll out of bed anyway, only to screech a few seconds later when something sharp tries to murder my foot.
“Shit! Ow, ow, ow. Fuck. Oh, my God. I’m dying. Holy shit.” I fall back onto the bed and check the bottom of
my foot. Only a little bleeding where something sharp broke the skin, and a nice big scratch. I grab my glasses and peered at the floor, shocked to see a purple crystal there.
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Selene must have gotten into something overnight, because that was not there last night.
I shoot her a dark look. “This is the thanks I get for giving you a home?”
My sweet little husky just tilts her head, staring at me like I’m stupid, and I sigh, tossing the crystal onto my night stand. For a second, I feel a tingle on my
fingertips, but when I grab it again and hold it in my palm, there’s nothing.
Weird.
my chest seems subdued, almost as if there’s some sort of
heard of crystals having magical properties, but Dad
not.
chain. I spin the crystal around, lifting it to the light to admire its colors. “Pretty. Think I should get a
neck.
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door, telling her to find a place to potty as I get dressed in record time. She’s at my door again by the time I dash
a sign on the door
the door.
is to facilitate bonding with your new dog and to rest from your workaholic tendencies. Don’t worry,
and I swear she sounds amused. I’ve learned in these past few days that I can’t stop attributing human emotions to her mannerisms.
their human emotions
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disconnect from that.
stop my torrent of mild outrage. “Don’t even think about it, Ava. Martha agrees. You’re banned. Go home, relax, get to know your new roommate. You haven’t had
all my
ears back
I sigh.
But I’m going to hate every second of
rest.”
said it’s paid time off, for–um, I think she
then close it again. Yup, I’m for sure
face. “Oh.
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I know. Like you gave birth or something. But Mrs. Martha says fur babies are still babies, so
It has a built–in soft close, because banging doors
look at Selene, then the door again. “I guess we can just… go home?” Because what else am I going to do? I could go hiking, but I don’t know the area. With my luck, I’d get lost in the middle of miles of evergreens, with no
moment that I have no
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