Chapter 70

"But it still sheds. Look at all its fur everywhere." Angelina tightened her embrace around Blanco. Emily carried Catherine, commenting, "Look at your mommy. She only wants to play with the cat and not you." Despite saying that, she laid a blanket on Angelina to keep her warm. Blanco quickly adapted to life as a domestic cat, and its swift adjustment made Angelina suspicious that it might have been a pet who ran away from its previous family. Typically, stray cats would flee at the sight of a human. Even when food was offered, they would hide and only reappear once the person had left. Blanco, however, seemed friendly with humans. "Did you run away from your owner, Blanco?" The cat meowed softly while lying on Angelina's chest, its snow-white hind legs curling beneath its stomach. It slowly blinked at her. She stroked its head, after which it meowed again. By the time Emily and Patricia had changed Catherine's clothes, Angelina had fallen asleep. When Chester returned, he bro