Capítulo 44: Chapter 44

“Okay.” Kaos looked at Padraig, then reached for his hand and stroked the back of it with his fingers. “I’m sorry. I didn’t know.”

“It’s okay. It’s… I would like to say in the past, but….”

“Yeah.”

Hestia woke up then, and Kaos took her in the yard to do her business. Padraig felt drained. The conversations that had been happening in his house since Kaos moved in were life-altering for him.

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Francis seemed to get his mood or maybe feel similarly, so Padraig waited until after dinner and few glasses of wine before asking him anything too serious.

Kaos obviously read the room and went upstairs, leaving Hestia with them for the time being.

Francis sat on the couch, curled up on one end as much as a full-grown man could, and accepted Hestia’s show of love greedily. He kept her close until she started to fall asleep on his lap.