Rescue Dogs: Chapter Seventeen
Valorous’ Uncle Heinous picks him up from work.
Cecil Hobbes, an ex-PE teacher disgraced and looked down on in his hometown, has a new partner: Sir Valorous King, a knight of the realm, once a child of prophecy, and Cecil’s stalker.
A few months into their relationship, Cecil finally convinces Valorous to see a therapist, on the condition that Cecil attend one himself.
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When Valorous finished up at the office on Saturday morning, he felt like there was a subtle vibration under his skin, his clothes feeling too tight and too heavy, his hands twitching. There was a thickness in the air that had nothing to do with the weather or the actual air pressure and everything to do with the tension woven through his own body.
It had been a long fucking day. He’d gone along to Regents Drive to pick up a statement from a witness in a murder a few months back — she was sick, the old lady, and she didn’t leave her house much, had seen the whole thing through her window, but subsequently wasn’t much up for…
