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enamoured and took off out of the garage.
    “And stay out.”
Mike pulled on his jacket and gloves. Backing the bike out of the
garage, he parked it while he shut the garage door again, then he
secured his helmet on his head, got back on the bike and roared off
down the street.
    The day wasn’t
his best. Every dickhead that walked the city seemed to come across
his path. A beating, a domestic, a broken restraining order, a kid
caught in the act of vandalism, and a car accident pretty much made
kept him and Alan racing from one end of the small city to the
other. Why people had to be so nasty was beyond him. It was a fact
that he’d never understand the dickheads of the world, just as it
was a fact that the paperwork that came with it was a huge
headache. And just as it was another fact that it made Maddy buy a
mobile phone for emergencies an urgent problem he needed to attend,
because if she ever came up against one of the dickheads he dealt
with regularly, well, he shuddered to think about it.
    By the time he
knocked off work and went home, he couldn’t even raise a protest
when he saw the kitten curled up on his veranda. At the sound of
his motorcycle, it scurried off the veranda and around the corner
of the house to disappear into his backyard.
    After the day
he’d had, the kitten didn’t even register on his annoyance
scale.
    A glance over
at Maddy’s house showed that all was quiet, so Mike headed indoors.
Throwing his clothes into the wash basket, he showered and dressed
in shorts and t-shirt, grabbed an iced coffee from the ‘fridge, and
flopped down onto the sofa. Idly he flicked through the TV channels
until he came to an old movie, and within ten minutes he was sound
asleep.
     
    The lady was
home. Mike watched as her car pulled into the drive and he glanced
at his watch. He’d give her an hour or so to do whatever it was she
needed to do and then he was going over to have a long overdue chat
with her. Unfortunately, less than half an hour later another car
pulled into her drive and he saw a petite woman dressed in elegant
clothes get out of the car and enter Maddy’s house as though she
owned it.
    Cripes, did
that mean Maddy actually kept her front door unlocked at times?
Mike scowled. He was going to have a serious talk to her about her
own safety as soon as her visitor left.
    Glancing down,
he caught sight of the kitten ambling out of the bushes lining his
fence to sit on his path and survey its world leisurely. Ye gods,
anyone passing by would think it lived here with him, which it
damned well didn’t, and that was something else Maddy had to sort
out - the damned fur ball.
    ~*~
    Maddy liked her
sister-in-law, but she wasn’t so sure about the woman who arrived
not long after her. Belinda Lovett dressed elegantly, but Jeannie
Bernard, her new friend - whoo boy, Maddy was sure that her clothes
alone cost more than Maddy’s car.
    Belinda was a
slender vision in a white sundress, and Jeannie exuded wealth in a
silk pants suit and high heels. Bringing this rich woman to Maddy’s
humble dwelling meant that Belinda and Matthew, Maddy’s brother,
were going higher in society.
    So just why
were Belinda and her rich friend here? Maddy eyed her sister-in-law
closely as she ushered them into her lounge room. Belinda was up to
something.
    Jeannie brushed
some imaginary dust - and no doubt Siamese cat hair as well - off
the seat of the armchair before she sat gingerly on the edge of it
and smiled a little condescendingly at Maddy. Her gaze swept over
Maddy from head to toe, and distaste showed fleetingly in her eyes
as she lingered on Maddy’s over-generous curves.
    That decided
it. Maddy didn’t like her, so she turned her attention to her
sister-in-law.
    Before sitting
in the armchair, Belinda shifted a couple of the cat shaped
cushions and sat down, elegantly crossing her legs. “Darling.
Delightful taste as usual in furnishings.”
    “Say what you
mean, Belinda.”
    “Fine. Do you
really need cat