Chapter 7The future lies before you like a field of fallen snow.
“This here is Cat.” Theo scratched Cat behind his undamaged ear.
“I think he can see I’m a cat.” Theo pretended Cat wasn’t talking. People acted as if he was some kind of nutcase if he acknowledged Cat while they were around. Not that he’d brought many people out here to meet Cat.
“Oh, the poor thing. What happened to him?” Dylan hunkered down to pat him, and Cat, the floozy, started purring. He never purred.
“Don’t know. He came to the barn one day.”
“And you kept him. That’s so sweet.”
“You were not sweet, tell him how it took you weeks before you first fed me.”
Theo continued to ignore Cat. “Yeah, the poor thing probably wouldn’t have survived otherwise.”
Cat snorted.
“That’s a really nice thing to do. I’ve always
