"Well," Gabe said as he hung his keys on the hook by the door, "lend him to me once you're done with him." Gabe thought he could do with both a shoulder rub and a hot guy.
He came over to the couch, standing there while she did her little sniff and looked up him. Then he nodded and sighed. "Yep. Just once," he told Zoe, "I'd love to come home and not smell like I'm a human enchilada." He walked around the couch so he could sit down beside her. "Need a shower. And a beer. But I appear to have sat down now instead." He let himself sink a little further into the couch, just happy to be home, before looking at his friend again. "How about you? Have a good day?"