He spent his rut with Josh but he doesnt remember, when he came back to his sense he wonder what happened because it doesnt feel like the usual cycle. Grayson gaslighted him by saying he spent his rut with Alex the dog, Chase ends up "believed him" and trying to be denial about it. The dog thing isnt metaphor at all, no one knows Chase spent his rut with Josh aside from Josh himself
In the novel chase’s older brother tricked him into thinking chase did it with a dog. Chase did in fact NOT screw a dog, his older brother is just evil and likes to torment chase. It’s a way to manipulate and control him. From what I remember, the brother drugged chase, hence our main character isn’t really able to remember what all ACTUALLY went on, he just remembers a dog being the first thing he sees after being drugged and going through rut, then his brother told him he did it with a dog.
Congrats, you got two anwsers of readers who don't remember what they read in the novel... .
The dogs thing has to do with Chase's first rut, when Chase still lived at home, anything else wouldn't make any sense -there was no Josh around, because it was before Josh.
Grayson that day went into a panic, thinking that Chase would go crazy or die ( the pheromone stuff is a serious matter in that family, but also for dominant alphas in general), because there was no one the spend the rut with. So he got his dog, but Chase passed out and nothing happend, and they took his pheromones out by injection ( the reason why they suddenly used an injetion wasn't in cluded in KMIYC, but you know form another novel that their dad arrived).
Since Grayson tends to do stupid jokes ( he did those dog joke in KML too, bad made clear it's a joke) ,and since he can't understand emotions so his smiles look unnatural since he fakes them etc, I think it can be difficult to tell if he is joking or not. And he joked about the dog after that, and Chase remembered a dog being there and nothing else....
Grayson later used Chase's fear to make him go to the pheromone parties, where they took out his pheromones by injection. He does actually do it to help Chase, since Chase himself is not even going to the hospital to get his pheromones removed. The sad thing is that Grayson only sees the result that they get out his pheromones, but not what damage his methods did to Chase.
Hshshshs I wasnt sure before if Josh and the dog were in the same timeline but glad it got corrected
Ohhh okay okay thank you
He actually fucked a dog or is that a metaphor and misunderstanding?? Like the mc being called as a dog since chase didnt know what the hell happened during his rut so he really didnt know who he did it with and his brother just comes with a literal dog on a leash all menacingly after his rut happened and messed with him. - the big brother when he saw the mc it felt familiar like he knew who he was and sort of felt ironic to him or repulsed like 'oh what are you doing here? WHY are you here?' And doesnt the mc have a child with chase? Isn't he the 'dog' that chase had his rut with??