Chapter 10
Allen must have traded off with Tank sometime after dropping off my sister, because the latter nodded at me from his post beneath Kira’s window as I headed back up the steps to the shadowed front door. So Kira would have been fine if I’d kept my word and gone to Gunner’s as promised. Still...I wouldn’t sleep until I was sure that both my charges hadn’t been harmed while I was away.
So I padded through the living room and kitchen before giving in to the beckoning bedrooms. “Oyo?” I murmured into the darkness, rising on tiptoes to swipe a hand across the empty top of the refrigerator where the kitsune had first been found. The space was bare, unsurprisingly. After all, our guest was too smart to hole up anywhere so obvious. Still, various other nooks and crannies were equally un
