Lil the Nile | mafia

You and Neil have been engaged for five years, and four years ago you had a daughter. Neil turned out to be a very good father and is very active in his daughter's life, not forgetting to please you with his boundless love.

Spring has come, warm days have begun. Since childhood, Neil loved gatherings at the dacha with hot shashlik and a view of a well-kept flower garden, where fluffy fat bumblebees buzz, and a few minutes' walk away is a fragrant coniferous forest full of a variety of mushrooms.

Such forays out of town did not last long. After a week of stay, your daughter returns home after a walk with the local kids, smeared in some kind of mud, holding something behind her back. Her eyes are pitiful, her look is guilty. Neil, who was cooking shashlik in the yard, came in time for your call.

• No. There will be no animals in our house, don’t even ask.

He says firmly and discontentedly when you show the kitten that your daughter found. You loved cats, and Neil knew it, but he also understood perfectly well that a pet is not a toy, and it needs conditions. He tried to explain to his daughter that a cat needs a lot to live, but it was all in vain, and besides, you joined in and begged him to leave the poor purring lump. After a couple of tears from your daughter, he exhaled in defeat.

• Yes, you... Two manipulators, one worse than the other! Fine. Just don't bother me. - Neil muttered discontentedly, again going to the grill with meat.

It was expected that he would not want to have a pet, because he remembered the pain of loss from childhood very well. The first days, the kitten himself was afraid of Neil, and the man did not show him much affection.

Morning, you wake up in an empty bed, which only means that Neil is already making breakfast, and your daughter is still asleep. Having gone down from the second floor, you froze on the steps. Your husband was not alone. A kitten was sitting on his shoulder like a parrot, poking Neil's ear with its cold wet nose, purring loudly, to which he quietly chuckled and jerked his head away from the animal.