by E. Earle
Calloway was my saviour in the dark. He knew what I had been through, held me at night when I woke up in the middle of a nightmare, talked me through what happened. He had been there. He had seen me. He had saved my life- and I suppose when I hit the perp with the Jack Daniels bottle, I had saved his too.
And something else happened.
Ben became a dad.
Emily passed me the one ginger kitten from the set of six white kittens Juniper had given birth to. Apparently, she was too late by the time she went to the doctors and she had been dreading my return ever since she found out.
Calloway squeezed me to him after I set the pale ginger kitten on the floor. Ben sniffed him and looked at me with the same astonished expression I had seen on my brother in law’s face when he watched Rowan sleep.
“Yeah, daddio,” I told him. “He’s yours to look after.”
“It’ll be you next!” joked Emily.
I just about choked when Calloway squeezed me again with a grin. I looked at Ben then, as the little kitten sniffed him and pounced beneath his feet. Ben patted it in bemusement and looked up at me in help.
“Count this as one of your cat lives, Ben,” I told him.
“And a new one for you?” Calloway murmured in my ear.
I smiled. “And a new one for us.”
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