the best thing about this is that when there’s plenty of resources, domesticated cats will naturally form colonies. in these colonies female cats raise their kittens communally with their kin. so you get situations where moms will raise kittens with their daughters from a previous litter, cats from the same litter will raise kittens together, etc. so not only does this little old kitty see her human as family, she is also excited to help her with her kitten.
Sometimes a grandma is a little creature that lives on the floor
Claire Beauchamp would never in a million years have believed she was capable of making it to the island as one of twenty contestants all vying for a million bucks and the title of Sole Survivor. But she did. And she’s here. And, she decides as she eyes up the competition, she’s going to win.
On the other tribe, James Fraser is still reeling. He hadn’t made it through the audition rounds. Not until another player dropped out last minute and he’d received a frantic phone call barely forty hours previous asking if he could book it to Jamaica ASAP. It’s an answered prayer because this prize money is the only thing that would keep his family home from foreclosure.
Neither of them knows that the next 39 days will bring more than either of them could’ve bargained for. And neither of them is ready.
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Mere moments away from beginning the game that will change their lives, two strangers on a boat make first contact without taking their eyes off the end prize.
Well, hey there dear readers! Hope y’all had a great Christmas!
I’m on Christmas vacation, adulting is all done, family is all gone home, and my time is my own again! So, prepare yourselves, y’all. I’ll be writing like a fiend again!
Like so many of us here, life has taken a turn as we all deal with the backlash of Covid. My job keeps me busy on a regular basis, but it’s absolutely *exhausting* now. I come home from work, eat supper, and fall asleep in my chair most nights. The weekends are spent doing the chores I ignore all week and trying to fix food for us to eat through the week so we don’t eat 100% junk (or take out). That leaves little free time for writing.
Thank y’all so much for sticking in there with me as my updates are way less than regular. Thanks for the messages checking on updates and reminding me that y’all are still thinking of me and hoping for more of this story. I won’t be giving up on it. I will finish it…it just might come slower and with no regularity.
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So, get a snack, maybe a glass of sweet tea (or hot cocoa, if it’s as cold as it is here!) and enjoy the next chapter. Thanks for reading!
Our story picks up right where it left off after Jamie and Claire…er…get horizontal.
She lay upon a deserted beach at night. Water lapped over her, cooling her heated skin. But the water’s fingers only touched small parts of her body at a time. She longed to immerse herself in the water and let it engulf her, but the water refused to comply.
Tori