August Heat by Billings Hildred

Author:Billings, Hildred
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lesbian Romance
Publisher: Barachou Press
Published: 2019-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

KRYS

“Hear me out, would you?” Krys placed her elbow on the chief’s desk, coffee-stained papers rustling beneath her. “The dalmatian days may be over, but that doesn’t mean we don’t need some animals around here, all right?”

Chief Johnson rubbed his brow and burrowed the pads of his palms into his eyes. A resounding sigh nearly knocked Krys out of her seat. What was worse? The torrential bullcrap storm she conjured when she helped herself into her boss’s office, or that tired face looking back at her? The man was supposed to have a nap at this time of day.

“Kittens,” he echoed. “You want the firehouse to adopt a litter of kittens.”

“Doesn’t have to be all of them…” Krys massaged the back of her neck. If her chief was usually napping at two in the afternoon, then she was working out. Lifting weights. Jumping rope. Getting the guys to join her in yoga, because God knew those boys were tighter than the hoses they dragged from engine to hydrants. “Keep a couple so they can play with and keep each other company. I can find homes for the others. I mean, they’re good mousers.”

The chief propped his chin up on his hand. “So are Dalmatians. You’ll notice we never got one. Or a bulldog, for that matter.” That was a reference to the poll the weekly town newspaper ran a few years ago. “What breed of dog do you think befits the Paradise Valley fire hall?” Somehow, “bulldogs” beat our Dalmatians by over twenty percent. Krys had always thought this a terrier town, so that was news to her.

“If this is about money to feed them and take them to vet, we’ll find a way. Remember when they had that library cat a few years back?” Ah, yes, in the days before Yi. Old Smokey and Yi overlapped each other by one year. Rumor was that the cat finally gave up the ghost because it couldn’t stand the new head librarian. “They always had a few dollars in the donation bin for food and litter.”

“You gonna clean up that litter box every day, Madison?” Chief Johnson laughed as if that were the most ridiculous thing he ever heard. “’Cause I ain’t! Doubt you’ll find many of the guys here want to pick up cat crap, especially if they already do it at home.”

Krys sat back in her seat. “We already share the chores around here. What’s cleaning a food bowl and scooping up some clumps?”

“You’re out of your mind. Collect some donations for those cats you found, if you want, but I’m drawing the line at inviting them to live here. Do you know how much paperwork that is for me, anyway? Even if I wanted them around…”

Krys knew it was a longshot, but bringing the cats to the firehouse was her best shot at getting all four adopted together. Or at least two of them together. She had already asked her friends if they wanted to adopt some furballs,

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