Chapter 97

After their happy meal, the pups didn’t take long to fall asleep. They had dosed off in the most adorable position. In the small living room I had lay down a mat so that they may play on it while I did the dishes, when I came back I found them fast asleep holding each other’s hands. So adorable. But I had to put them to bed. When I did, I went back to the living room and sat with a cup of tea in my hands. It wasn’t dark out yet, we still had rays of sun before they disappeared. Sitting here gave me a lot of time to think, like most of the nights. Sometimes I even wished that my pups were the kind to keep you up at night since I was already failing to sleep three of five nights. This place felt lonely, but wasn’t that what I was despite having the company of my two pups. I was a lonely woman abandoned by her husband to be with his ex-lover. The images come flooding back to my mind, the way she touched his crotch. Those, those words she said. Why remind myself of pain. It clearly knoc