Winter's Storm by Mary Stone

Author:Mary Stone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-04T16:00:00+00:00

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Though Autumn made an effort to avoid national news on a regular basis, she still liked to keep up with the goings-on around the city. As long as she was home during the evening broadcast of the local news, she almost always flipped over to the station, at least for a minute or two.

Tonight, however, she and Winter had anxiously awaited the nine o’clock timeslot. The FBI and the Danville Police Department had teamed up for a press briefing that had been aired on Danville’s news station earlier that night. Due to a hazardous weather forecast and the fact that the FBI’s announcement wasn’t local to Richmond, the briefing hadn’t made the cut for the earlier broadcast.

With one more sip from her chai latte, Autumn settled back into her corner seat on the sectional couch that took up most of her living room. At the other end of the sofa, Winter scratched the head of the fat, orange cat curled up in her lap. Autumn’s little Pomeranian mix had taken up residence in the cat bed beside the entertainment stand—the cat hardly slept in it anyway.

Autumn stretched her legs to prop her feet on top of the stone surface of the coffee table. “Is Noah still thinking about getting a cat?”

As Winter nodded, she held up two fingers. “Two cats. He doesn’t want to get only one because he thinks it’ll get lonely since we work so much.”

Autumn smiled as Peach turned over onto her back, wanting a belly rub. “He’s not wrong. When I adopted Toad, I was at the shelter to find a friend for Peach. I wasn’t all that familiar with having a dog as a pet, but little Toad just looked so sad. I figured that since he was about the size of a cat, it should work out.”

Winter glanced to the sleeping pup. “They seem to get along pretty well, so I’d say it was a good choice.”

The orange cat opened her eyes slightly, almost as if she knew she was the topic of their conversation.

“Sometimes, I’ll catch them snuggling together, and then they’ll both run out of the room like they’re embarrassed that I caught them.”

Winter let out a half laugh, half snort. “I’m a little excited for Noah to adopt his cats. It’s been a long time since I’ve owned a pet, and sometimes I forget how comforting it can be. I figure him adopting a couple is the next best thing to me going out to adopt them myself.”

Before Autumn could voice her agreement or ask Winter what she and Noah planned for their future living arrangement, the evening news jingle drew their attention back to the television screen.

The newscaster, Rosa Carrero, nodded to the camera. “Hello, and welcome back to the Richmond nine o’clock news. As we mentioned earlier in our broadcast, we now have a story from our neighbors to the south in Danville. No doubt, we all remember the tragedy that took place earlier this year at the Riverside Mall.

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