Pretty Dogs (Dirty Strays, #2)

by Riley Nash

I’m not a smart guy, and I don’t know a lot, but I’ll never understand why his mom didn’t burn the entire world down to get him back. Because he’s the only perfect thing there is.

Dallas is in every single box. He’s the world around the boxes, he’s the boxes, he’s everything. I love my best friend, with his hair and his smile and the body that fits against mine. But his soul could be inside anyone or anything and I’d still need him until the day I die. My thoughts are too big, and I don’t know how to make him understand, because I don’t even understand. The best I can come up with is blurting, “I don’t care.”

If it weren’t for me, maybe Scout could have ended up with someone better, who wasn’t missing parts. But every word out of his mouth and everything he’s ever done tells me I’m what he wants. And the fact that it doesn’t make sense, that it goes against logic? That’s his problem, not mine. My job is just to believe him.”