Gentle Doesn’t Mean Silent: A Big Dog Teaches a Boy Boundaries

Sarah crouched again, eye level with him.

“No,” she said. “Listen to me. Letting it go is how it keeps happening—to you, to someone else, forever.”

Leo’s eyes flicked to me.

“But now Koda—”

“Koda is not the problem,” Sarah said, her voice breaking on his name.

I leaned into Leo’s side, my shoulder solid against his leg.

I wanted to tell him something in continue reading …