Scaredy Cat by Sofie Ryan

Author:Sofie Ryan [Ryan, Sofie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2023-07-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Sam ended the night’s music with his version of Bob Seger’s “We’ve Got Tonight.” By that point pretty much everyone in the pub was on their feet. Jess was leaning her head against mine while my head was against Nick’s shoulder and all three of us were swaying to the music. I could hear Nick singing along very softly in my ear and I wished I could convince him to get up and perform with Sam and the boys. Anyone was welcome to join them. Nick had done that in the past but it had been a while. He was a good guitar player and he had a decent voice as well, but when I brought up joining Sam for a song he’d just laugh off the suggestion.

“I’ll see you at Mom’s on Sunday for dinner, right?” Nick said as he pulled on his jacket.

“Of course,” I said. Charlotte tried to get us all together for dinner fairly regularly and since she was a great cook—and great company—I never said no.

“Me too,” Jess said, waving the end of the red and black scarf she was winding around her neck.

I made a circle that included all three of us with one finger. “Dish duty?”

“Absolutely,” Jess said.

Nick nodded.

I dropped Jess off and headed home. Elvis was still in residence in the chair in the bedroom except now he was sprawled on his back with his head hanging partway off the seat. He yawned but made no effort to move.

“I might want to sit there and watch the late news,” I said. He yawned again and closed his green eyes. I was being ignored.

The next morning Elvis was my only companion on the drive to the shop. He was also a more picky backseat driver than usual. He found something wrong with the way I stopped at the stop sign at the corner. I didn’t seem to put on my turn signal when he thought I should and once he leaned sideways almost as though he was looking at the speedometer.

I remembered the first time I’d seen Elvis. It had been down at the pub because Sam had been feeding him. Elvis had just turned up down along the harbor front one day. Sam wasn’t sure if he’d been with someone who had been passing through and Elvis had run off or if the cat had been abandoned. No one had ever come looking for him.

The vet who checked out Elvis after Sam more or less tricked me into taking the cat said he was in good health but he had at some point been hurt in a fight. There was the scar across his nose that gave him a bit of bad boy charm but there were others under his fur that had come from deeper, longer wounds. He was very friendly and charmed pretty much everyone who came into Second Chance. Elvis had even won over more than one person who wasn’t a cat fan. And he and Rose, working together, could sell just about anything.

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