Page 17 (1/2)

“I guess,” she said and scratched her head “Is there soht freak out if I let her loose in here It’s a huge roo so stressed…”

“We can put her upstairs in the smallest loft room if you like”

“Andout? Your carpets are so nice and clean, I have a horrible feeling sheunspeakable to the and everything after the day she’s had” Not unlike her nener

“Followa soothing noise as he did “We’ll get her fixed up”

Piper sat tensely in a large ar the cat who had been released fro in a corner of the roo their best in the circu fashioned a bed nest out of towels and blankets, but it wasn’t as if the cat kne hard they were trying

Piper glanced around in the soft light froht how ically placed interior bits and pieces, and there was a cozy feel to the place, but it was all far too tasteful and uncluttered to be anyone’s ho to live so close to nature in the mountains, and yet enjoy such domestic luxury

“Hi,” Matt whispered as he inched around the door carrying a breakfast tray under his arm “I reed up a litter box for our little princess”

“Good thinking” She smiled as he set the tray down on the floor and poured wood chips into it “And innovative of you”

“Thanks Do you think she’ll use it?”

She rustled her fingertips over the surface of the chips to ood look, so let’s hope so, but if she doesn’t, I promise to clean up any h it She hasn’t even had the operation yet Will you be able to handle it?”

Piper shrugged “I don’t have istered as mine and I wouldn’t abandon her anyway I couldn’t do that If she was in a rescue center for more than a feeeks, they’d euthanize her”

“Euthanize her?” He h his teeth

“Terrible, isn’t it?”

He nodded and pulled the ring on a can of Albacore tuna, opening it “Let’s get soive her too much stuff like that and she won’t want to leave Talk about luxury accommodation” She s she hadn’t caught a tantalizing whiff of the fish and was far, far above showing any interest Yet, within a fewdown the contents as if there was no tomorrow

Matt poured some bottled water into a bowl “Should we leave her to settle in now?”

“I think so,” she said and pushed herself up fro off there myself”