Page 49 of Seduction

By the time I’m able to reach her, she’s blue from the cleaner in the toilet bowl, soaking wet and completely pissed but otherwise fine.

“What the hell just happened in here?!!” Torren demands, yelling as he comes up behind us. “Where the fuck is Hope?! If she’s dead, I will gut all of you before Haliee kills me, too!” he continues yelling.

“I don’t fucking know what happened, dude! One minute, Hope is laying on the couch and the next, the fluff of shit was on fire and Creed flushed her in the fucking toilet!” Corden yells, panicking the fuck out.

“So, you’re saying Creed flushed Hope down the toilet?” Torren asks, freezing in place.

“I’m saying Hope is alive and has had a bath now,” Corden fires back.

“She’s fine.” I ease everyone’s tension. “I’m going to give her an actual bath now and check her over, but it more or less just singed her fur a little. I need to get this toilet chemical off her though before it does burn her,” I say, shooting a glare at Creed.

“I saved her life. You fuckers are going to be salty when my Doll thanks me for this,” Creed says, pointing his finger at us all.

“Roof, Creed. Finish the lights. Corden, you finish Santa. Haul his fat ass up to the roof and pin him there. Mathias, bath the fucking cat before Haliee comes home and murders us all. Let’s at least give her something to be proud of us over,” Torren orders out, and we all disperse.

This day went from decent, to what the fuck, in the span of a cat on fire. No Alicia Keys pun intended.

I turn with a shivering, blue Hope in my arms and start running water into the bathtub. I should have been more vigilant in my knowledge of cats because as soon as the water hits the tub, Hope goes bat shit crazy.

The fluffy little fuck claws her way out of my arms and runs into the living room where she ducks under the sofa and refuses to let any of us touch her.

Ollie has it easy in the basement right now, the lucky bastard.

For the next few hours I stay down on my knees, trying my damndest to get this cat out and bathed.

Unfortunately, Haliee comes walking through the door before I even have a chance and now everyone is gathering in the living room along with her.

“Um, Matty? Are you okay?” she asks in her sweet voice.

“Well, sweetheart, there was an incident while you were at school today,” Torren replies, and Haliee’s face turns pale.

“Please God, not another letter. I don’t think I could handle that right now,” Haliee says, swaying on her feet a bit.

“No, babe. Nothing like that. It’s just… you see, Hope had an incident today,” Torren says gently as he tries to soothe her at the same time

“What. Happened. To. My. Cat?” Haliee grinds out, going from scared to pissed in two seconds tops. Shit, the cat is just like her, attitude-wise.

“Listen. Everything’s good, babe. She got too close to the fireplace, so I had to dunk her in the toilet. She’s fine,” Creed’s psycho ass points out, puffing his chest out like he’s some kind of fucking hero for flushing the damn cat in the toilet.

“YOU DID WHAT TO HER?!!” Haliee screeches. “Matty, move!” she yells, diving under the couch and grabbing Hope with zero effort like I haven’t just been stuck on this floor for fucking hours over that asshole.

“Oh, my poor baby. What did they do to you? My sweet baby is blue! What the fuck is wrong with you?!” Haliee pampers the cat while scolding us.

“Babe, I think you’re overreacting,” Creed says, calmly approaching Haliee and Hope while the rest of us take a huge step back.

Even I know you never say that kind of shit to a woman.

“Overreacting. OVERREACTING?!?” Haliee screams while Hope hisses at him.

Like mother, like cat.

“I will miss your psychotic ass, Creed. It’s been nice having you as a brother,” Corden says mournfully.

Haliee takes off up the stairs with Creed on her heels, apologizing out his ass as she ignores him. The rest of us stare after them in silence.

“She did like Santa’s fat-ass up on the roof. Although she wasn’t too excited about the reindeer humping each other. Another thing I assume Creed is going to have to grovel over,” Lukas says like our girl didn’t just lose her shit and her cat wasn’t flushed in the toilet.

This family is the best bunch of psychos ever.

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