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Chapter 27

One year later

“Percy” Where is that damn cat? I walk around to the back of the yard and call out for hiht for sure the little shit would be out here digging up the flowerbed

“Any luck?” Becks asks from behind me

“No, he is a lost cause I ary,” I tell hi here?” I turn around and give hiain

“Should be anytiirlfriend We are having the Penny and I Beckett and Desi are going to South Aood for hi to steal him away from me

“Katie!” Penny screams my name from the kitchen

Becks and I go to see what she is freaking out about

“What?” I ask, and then I see Percy sitting on the table eating her chicken “Percy,” I shout, and he looks at me, licks his mouth, and I swear the little devil just smiled at me

I inherited his when she passed away last fall I stayed with her until she passed froe and natural causes She went out with a smile on her srinkled face We spent her final days talking and re life When she was younger, she was a singer in a gospel group They even had a hit song I never knew that about her until it was close to the end, which saddenedwe lived next to each other

Penny wasn’t too thrilled when I oing to go to the shelter if I didn’t

“I’ll order a pizza,” Becks says with a chuckle

“I can’t believe you are ditching and leaving

“I can hear you ya know?” I shake my head at her You would think we aren’t even friends with the way they talk about me as if I am not in the room with them

A knock sounds at the front door to our townhouse I ended up o Must be Desi I go to let her in and see that she brought a casserole I s