After the Storm
“Lottie said in answer to Cailin’s question as she hugged a black kitten that scrambled, hissing, out of her arms.
Cailin caught it before it could run under the stove. Calming the frightened kitten as she cradled it in the crook of her arm, she said, “If you’re going to have a kitten, Lottie, you must learn how to hold it correctly.”
“So I can keep her for my very, very own?”
“If Samuel says it’s all right.”
“Samuel, can I keep her for my very, very own?”
He pushed back from the kitchen table and lifted the little girl to sit on his lap. “You’ll have to take care of her and the other cat, making sure they have food and water and a warm place to sleep.”
“Like you take care of Mama and us?”
“Yes.”
Cailin said nothing when Samuel looked past the little girl toward her.
A bewitching smile slid along his lips as he went on, “And how your mother takes care of all of us.”
Lottie jumped down from his lap and ran to Cailin. Putting the kitten in the little girl’s arms, she said, “Now be careful.
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