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However, Merry was pretty sure the count was up to fifteen, which made absolutely no sense. She knew for a fact there’d been no more than eight, maybe ten at the most, in the box when she’d walked into Shenanigans.
Yet, now there were fifteen. Maybe even sixteen, since she was pretty sure she hadn’t counted that one yet.
She stared as a black kitten with one white paw went racing by, then reached into her pocket to drag out a candy bar.
She devoured it in about two seconds, then pulled out another one.
This was a nightmare!
Thank the demons for chocolate.
Chocolate made everything better, even when faced with an unknown number of homeless kittens.
Kittens who weren’t even spayed or neutered, for Hell’s sake!
The only good news was that Merry was pretty certain the majority of the kittens would not be accompanying her back to the hotel that night. Thank the demons.
“So, you like kittens, eh?”
Merry froze as the scent that accompanied that gravelly voice washed over her. She crouched down to place Drusilla, or maybe it was Spike, on the floor—no, that was definitely Drusilla.
Standing back up, she slowly turned to face the owner of that voice.
By the flames of Hell, the man was hot.
Merry was quite tall for both females and males in the Earth realm, though rather short for Hell, but this man stood eye-to-eye with her.
And what gorgeous eyes they were. Dark and intense, they were trained on her face, waiting for her to answer.
Merry cleared her throat. “Not really.”
A look of confusion crossed his face. “Not really what?”
“I’m not really that fond of kittens, though I have to admit, they are rather cute.” Cute, but so tiny and fragile, at least compared to the Hell-Kittens her father always had running around the Nine Realms of Hell.
She eyed the box that had somehow made its way to the floor and was now sitting tipped on its side, spewing yet another kitten from its depths.
This was probably the work of Satan, that nosy, interfering bastard.
“If you’re not that fond of kittens, how in the world did you end up with twenty of them?”
“Twenty!” Bygul exclaimed. “Soraya, I said to stop sending them kittens!”
“I’m trying to stop it, but the portal seems to be stuck.”
“Portal?” Bygul, Tivali and Muezza chorused.
“You opened a portal in the bar?” Tivali demanded. “What were you thinking?”
“Not the bar,” Soraya exclaimed. “I would never do that! No, the box is the portal.”
The box that was spewing out three more kittens, even as they watched.
“For goddess’ sake, Soraya!” Bygul exclaimed. “What’s on the other end of the portal?”
“The waiting room, of course.”
The rest of them groaned.
