What We Pretended To Be
Quiet, intent, like he was trying to solve something he couldn’t quite reach.
The clinic helped at first. Animals were useful that way — they demanded presence, attention, practicality. A nervous golden retriever with separation anxiety did not care about emotional complications inside billionaire marriages. Neither did the aggressively offended cat that tried to attack Ada before nine in the morning. “You know,” Ada said while adjusting her gloves, “sometimes I think cats can sense weakness.” “I think this one can sense joy and wants to destroy it.” Ada snorted. For a while the normalcy worked — appointments, medication charts, phone calls, fur everywhere, controlled chaos. I almost relaxed
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