Chapter 154: "Hey!"

“You didn’t mean to, did you?”

Maya’s eyes brim with tears and she shakes her head. “No. I’m sorry mummy.”

My instincts have me kneeling so I can be at face level with her and I place my hands on her shoulders as I look into her eyes.

“Look at me, Maya.” A tear rolls down her cheek but she does. She’s scared. I can feel it in my bones.

“It’s not your fault, okay? You can’t control how you feel in some situations and this was one of those situations. You were upset Uncle Danis wasn’t going to teach you, right?”

She nods and I wipe that tear working its way down her cheek. “I wanted to see him do magic again.”

Her reply has humor rising in me and I chuckle.

“There’s no problem with that. But you’re a special child, baby. You’re not like every other pup, you have some things that make you different, but if you can learn to control them, you can be the most special different pup the world has ever seen.”

“Just like Uncle Danis?”

I feel like she gave me a punch with those words and a wry s