Benny’s POV After we bathe my newly named dog, I do my best to dry her with towels before laying out a blanket near one of the radiators and patting it. Pippa lopes over to me, sniffing at the blanket as I stroke her head, ‘this is for you to lie on Lady Pip’ I tell her softly, ‘just until the bed and things I’ve ordered for you turn up in a while.’ Pippa stares at me before stepping onto the blanket, turning around and sinking down onto her stomach, her head dropping onto her paws as her eyes close. ‘I think she likes it’ Tanner whispers as he joins me, watching the now snoozing dog avidly. I nod, smiling, ‘I think you are right’ I agree. The pounding of small feet have me looking up at the hallway just as Austin barrels into the room dressed in one of my old, Navy PT t-shirts that

