The Blazing Glass by Kimberly Loth

Author:Kimberly Loth [Loth, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Liv

Last night Ty and I had a nice time, like old times. We popped popcorn and watched movies. I didn’t nag him once about the baby because it was my birthday, but I would start in again today.

Just after I finished getting ready for school, the doorbell rang. Usually Gabe just waited for me, but maybe I was running late. I hadn’t even looked at the clock. I flung the door open and stopped short.

Uh. Oh.

“Is Bea Nader home?” the woman asked. She wasn’t a cop, but she was an official of some sort. Her uniform, with some badge and tightly pressed slacks, promised that. This was never good.

“Gran!” I called, worry settling in my stomach. This wasn’t the first time a woman like that had showed up. Social services visited at twelve when I bragged that my brother was out of town and I could do whatever I wanted, and then cops showed up when I was thirteen.

She came out of the kitchen and looked at me questioningly. I pointed to the lady at the door.

“How many pets do you have on the premises?” the woman asked.

Damn. Gran looked at me with wide eyes.

“We have three,” I lied. How did she know we had more? They never went outside, and they all freaking looked the same.

“Not according to your vet records.”

My effing vet betrayed me. Since when did they report people for having too many pets?

“What do you want us to do?”

“You’ll need to get rid of one and pay a fine. Now, if you’ll excuse me, young lady, I need to speak with Ms. Nader.”

“Gran’s mute. You have to talk to me.”

“You’re a minor.”

“Yes, but…”

Ty thumped down the stairs, and I closed my eyes. This was not going to be good. He would not let me live this down, and he certainly wouldn’t think it would be okay for me and Gran to live alone.

“What’s going on?” Ty asked.

I turned to him. “They said we have too many pets.”

Ty glowered at me. “Why don’t you take Gran back into the kitchen. I’ll take care of this.”

I didn’t want him to take care of it. I wanted to take care of it myself. I had everything under control, and there’s nothing he could do that I couldn’t.

Gran put her arm around me, and we went back into the kitchen. I paced. This was the kind of thing Ty was worried about. But if he never gave us the chance, he’d never know if we could handle things, and we could totally handle them.

A few minutes later Ty came back with a piece of paper in hand.

“Well?” I asked, tapping my foot.

“I told you no more cats.”

“Sorry,” I said with a forced smile. “Tokyo was a gift. It’s not like I went out and got him.”

“It doesn’t matter. What would you have done if I hadn’t been here?”

“Paid the fine. Isn’t that what you did?”

“Yes. Now, which cat are you going to get rid of?”

I squeezed my eyes shut. Tokyo was my favorite, but how could I get rid of any of them? They were my babies.

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