After my cat brought home puppies from who
“We’ve been getting reports of missing puppies throughout the neighborhood,” he said.
“Families are worried, and we’ve been trying to trace where they might have gone.”
A knot tightened in my chest. Missing puppies?
Marsa’s strange behavior suddenly took on a new, alarming significance.
I could feel Lili’s grip on my hand tighten, her little fingers like a vice on mine.
Mrs. Miller chimed in, her voice carrying a sharp edge.
“I saw your cat dragging one across the yard and thought it was… peculiar.
She’s been doing it for days, from what I can tell.”
I swallowed hard, glancing at Marsa, whose eyes were half-closed, seemingly content with her makeshift family.
It didn’t make any sense. Marsa had never shown any interest in dogs before,
let alone become a surrogate mother to a litter of puppies
