Cat Bearing Gifts (2012)
“Ryan said, pulling into Debbie’s weedy driveway beside the station wagon. The dark-haired young woman was unloading her grocery bags, and at Ryan’s voice she turned, startled, a secretive look crossing her face, replaced at once by a too bright smile. Ryan smiled back, and killed the engine. She had, for the last few minutes, been sitting up the street in her truck beneath some overhanging juniper branches, watching Debbie haul a baby stroller out of the back, open it up and pile grocery bags i...nto it. She had also seen, the instant Debbie opened the back of the wagon and turned away, a flash of red and of gray leap out, the two tomcats streak across the drive behind the woman and disappear up the pine tree near the front door. What was that about? Now the cats crouched on Debbie’s roof, peering over; Ryan didn’t dare look up at them, she kept her eyes on Debbie.
“You came to fix the leak now?”
“I came to look at it,” Ryan said.MoreLess
“You came to fix the leak now?”
“I came to look at it,” Ryan said.MoreLess
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