Side Story 4.95 - We Are Enough

Lily's POV

We didn’t even get that far before we were interrupted. Maybe it was a step or two?

“Wait!”

A chorus of small, scrambling feet followed the voice. I turned around just in time to see a cluster of pups tumbling down the dirt path behind us, arms waving, cheeks pink, and hair tousled with sleep.

One of them—a chubby-faced little boy with a crooked scarf—nearly tripped over his own paws trying to catch up. “You—you can’t just leave!”

“We’re not stealing anything, I swear,” Brinn said, hands up dramatically.

“We know!” a smaller girl huffed, marching right up to him. “We came to say thank you.”

I blinked.

They were all there. At least ten pups, some still rubbing sleep from their ey