Here Kitty, Kitty by Laurenston Shelly

Author:Laurenston, Shelly [Laurenston, Shelly]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Series - Shifter
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2007-03-06T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The phone rang again, and Angie reached over, snatching it off the side table. She would have to change that ring. After getting two orgasms pumped out of her, she’d gone back to bed, and she found her phone ring damn annoying at eleven in the morning.

She flipped it open and, without lifting her head from her wonderfully firm pillow, answered.

“Yeah?”

“Hey. Hey. I’ve got her. Hi, baby.”

Angie sat bolt upright in the bed. Now she was wide awake.

“Mom?”

“Yes. Hi. I’ve got your father here, too.”

Okay, what the hell was happening? First this morning’s antics with Nik and now this.

“Is everything okay?”

“Oh, yes. Yes. But I was going through my day planner this morning trying to find where I’d stuck some notes when I noticed that we missed your birthday. So we wanted to call and wish you a happy birthday.”

Angie closed her eyes. “My birthday? That was three months ago.”

“Well, better late than never.”

Angie would prefer never. She didn’t know why, but no call at all would have been easier than these months or even years later calls that both her parents insisted on. Could they truly be trying to prove they somehow cared?

She already knew they didn’t care. Not about her. Both of them being archeologists, maybe if they had to dig her up in the Sudan, they’d care a little more.

Yet caring about humans just wasn’t in their nature. It never had been.

She felt herself go icy all over. Her heart hardening against the pain. Her heart hardening in general. Before she learned how to do this, she used to do the stupidest shit. It amazed her every day both Sara and Miki stuck around during those ugly times in junior high and high school. Those two women, mere girls at the time, washed the blood out of her hair, put antiseptic over her cuts and bruises, and hid any evidence. They kept reminding her they were her family now and that they loved her even as they pried the blood-covered two-by-four out of her hands.

“So,” her mother struggled with conversation, “how’s it been going?”

What should she tell her? Well, my best friend’s a shapeshifter and my other best friend is in love with one and having his baby. Plus a pack of hyenas tried to kill me. And who knows what the hell the lions are doing. And I’m temporarily living with a tiger who seems to have the hots for me. And you?

She didn’t, however, want to talk to her mother. Yet she couldn’t bring herself to hang up the phone either.

“Fine,” she finally got out.

“Anyway, there was one other thing.”

She should have known better. There had to be a reason her parents suddenly called her out of the blue.

“What do you want, Mother?”

“I merely needed some information on your grandmother’s estate.”

“You know I don’t deal with that. Uncle Ernesto’s handling everything. Has been for years.” Her grandmother had given Angie a good portion of her money when Angie graduated college. The old woman knew then her daughter and son-in-law would make it difficult for her granddaughter.

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