I knew there were at least a dozen others, all over the country. Eva and her roommate; Fiona, Carl's sister in law, Martha, wife of the infertile husband from Boston, the two submissive's in New York, Janet, Melanie, Brenda, Lois and Patricia in Wisconsin, plus the woman in Canada.

When Dawn had told us about how many puppies they were educating in Marquette, there'd been eight total, I think, from age one to eight. An average of one per year. We were talking about four times that many scattered around that I had some responsibility of bringing to the packs.

We were suddenly surrounded by well wishers, patting Sean on...