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

being the biggest thing in every room.

Leo stopped walking.

His hand tightened on my leash.

Mason saw us and smirked.

“Hey,” he called, voice dripping confidence. “There’s the psycho dog.”

The boys beside him snorted.

Leo’s breathing quickened.

I felt his old instinct kick in—the shrink, the disappear, the hope it ends if you don’t react.

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