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She just wants her boy back…
It happens so fast it, it momentarily stuns her.
Titus had lived inside the house for the last fourteen years and he never — never — got outside.
Until tonight. It was like a lightning flash, that’s how quickly he darted out the open patio door. She didn’t think the cat could move that fast anymore. One minute, Titus had been eyeing something outside in the yard and the next minute, his black tail with the white tip on top disappeared between the bushes.
Fear like she’d never known before chokes her and she’s frozen in panic at the still open door.
Think, she demands of her locked brain. Think.
He’s always responded to her voice, so she steps out to the bushes and calls for him. She canvasses the length of her yard — nothing. How could he have even gotten that far? How could he move that fast? Where could he be?
Twilight paints the sky a vivid blue and pink and if she were in a better frame of mind, she’d take a moment to appreciate it, but she’s so wracked by fear for her boy that she can’t comprehend much beyond the thumping of her heart saying find him find him find him.
The darker it gets, though, the tougher it is to see much of anything.
