Night Mares by Manda Scott

Author:Manda Scott [Scott, Manda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-48880-0
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

The problem with acting on impulse is that you have to deal with the consequences. I sat in my car in front of Nina Crawford’s cottage with a homicidal cat bundled on the front seat, a dog on the verge of mutiny in the back and a major crisis of conscience.

I prodded the bundle experimentally.

‘OK, Killer, what now?’

The thing writhed and swore ten types of vengeance, none of them helpful.

I pressed my forehead on the steering wheel and stared in darkness at the obvious. ‘You need your mother, cat.’ Which was a pity, really, because I had no intention at all of talking to his mother before I had myself a lot more sorted out.

When you are backed in a corner, there are always other ways out.

I toyed, briefly, with the idea of walking quietly up the path and leaving him wrapped in his rug in the pharmacy. Or in the doorway to the small animal ward. Or somewhere else warm and relatively sheltered that gets regular human traffic throughout the night.

Nice idea. Difficult to justify in reality.

I considered, quite seriously, walking into the local police station and handing him in as a stray. ‘Found him on the switchback, officer. Must have been hit by a car.’ A car with a flame thrower as a bolt-on accessory, but we won’t mention that.

Or I could simply lay him out on the dual carriageway and leave him to go the way of all urban felines. There are those of my acquaintance who would believe I had done the rest of the world a favour. Almost all of them. Everyone except for Nina Crawford, who has just lost her home and is already too close to the edge.

Whatever else is going on, I owe her more than that.

Less than five minutes later, I turned in over the cattle grid and rolled down the hill towards the hospital.

I surprise myself sometimes with my own innate sense of responsibility.

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