Purrfect Bully (The Mysteries of Max Book 92) by Nic Saint

Author:Nic Saint [Saint, Nic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Puss in Books
Published: 2024-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 24

“Of course I’m not going to eat you,” I said.

“We don’t eat turtles,” Dooley clarified.

“We do adopt them, though,” said Harriet.

“In fact, our human just adopted all five of your brothers and sisters,” said Brutus.

“And they wanted us to bring you home too,” I added. “So you see? We would never eat you or cause you any harm. You are Rhett, aren’t you?” I added, just to be sure. Even though it still embarrassed me a great deal to admit it, it was true what I had told the other turtles: all of them looked pretty much the same to me, so whether this one was related to Max One and the others was not something I could determine at first glance.

“You aren’t going to eat me?” asked the turtle.

“Of course not,” I said. “Like Dooley said, we’re not in the habit of eating turtles. We only help them out when they’re in trouble.”

“We gave refuge to your brother Max One,” said Brutus, “when he decided to run away from our neighbor Ted Trapper, who was using him as a slave to create his Plurtles.”

“What is a Plurtle?” asked the turtle.

“It’s a plastic turtle,” I said. “But that doesn’t matter right now. So are you Rhett or aren’t you?”

He nodded slowly. “Yes, that is my name. But how did you know?”

I got the impression that this turtle was a little slow on the uptake. Possibly he had been dropped on his head as a baby. “Like we already told you: your brothers and sisters are all staying with us. And they asked us to find you so you can be reunited with them.”

“How can I be sure that you’re not friends with that— Oh, no, there she is!”

He was pointing to a spot behind us, and as we turned, I saw that he was referring to Clarice, who had emerged from her hideout to take in the scenery.

“Oh, you found the turtle,” she said. “Good for you.”

“She’s the one who tried to eat me!” said the turtle.

“I’m sure that Clarice was way too busy to try and eat you,” I said.

“She was punishing a bully,” said Dooley. “Teaching her a lesson she wouldn’t forget.”

“The lesson being that bullying isn’t a nice thing to do,” said Harriet.

“Are you sure? She was creating quite a big mess in there.”

“Absolutely,” I said. “Clarice gets a little carried away when she’s on one of her missions.”

“She meant well,” said Brutus.

The turtle still didn’t seem fully convinced, and when Clarice joined us and gave him a smile, he moved back a few paces.

“Okay, I never saw you there, buddy,” she said. “And if I knocked over your cage, I’m sorry, all right? It’s just that I was being swung around by that horrible girl. She’s really something. Very strong, I have to say, but I think I gave as good as I got.”

“You really did,” said the turtle, still eyeing us with suspicion but warming to us a little now that we had explained ourselves.

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