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The unknown caller
“Daddy, can we keep them? Please?” Valerie clung to the pair of black and white cats, fixing her father with a desperate look. “Look at their little faces. I promise I’ll feed them and clean up after them. Please please please please!”
Demetrius squirmed against the 8-year-old’s tightening grip, but Cassidy would not endure the abuse. She leapt from the girl’s arm, choosing instead to sit by her feet and mewl plaintively at the man standing between them and the next phase of the plan.
“I dunno, Val…” he said. “You know how your mother feels about animals in the house.”
“But please?” Valerie whined. “I know she won’t mind when she sees how cute they are.”
“I’d still wanna talk to her about it first, sweetheart. When she gets back next week, we’ll circle back to this.”
“But they could be dead
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