Chapter 301

Chapter 301

Leanne had just left another message on Caleb’s voicemail when her phone finally rang. “Where did you get those photos you texted me?” she demanded as soon as she picked

Caleb’s voice was tinged with caution, “Madam, perhaps it would be best to discuss this with Mr. Richardson.”

Curtis was lounging on the sofa at Crystal Cove Villas, with a mask covering his face, engaging in a staring contest with a cat sitting nearby.

The cat looked wary, its wide eyes fixed intently on him.

“Don’t look at me like I’m a stranger. I didn’t choose you, but since you were born to her, that technically makes me your dad.”

Legs crossed, Curtis tried to reason with the cat, “For my happiness, a little sacrifice from you isn’t too much to ask, right?”

The cat just stared.

Leanne had stood Amy up. As compensation, she had agreed to cover Amy’s coffee runs for the next week.

Leanne parked in front of the villa and hurried up the steps, instinctively placing her finger on the biometric scanner. It struck her only as the door swung open that the place now belonged to Curtis.

She was too familiar with the setting.

As she entered, Curtis was already turning to look at her.

Would it be too silly to step out and knock again?

Leanne decided against it and walked straight in. Scanning the room and not spotting the cat, she blurted out, “Where’s the cat?”

Curtis frowned, “Aren’t you going to greet me first?”

“You look alive and well,” Leanne shot back, dispensing with formalities. “How’s the cat?”

Curtis couldn’t help but chuckle at her directness, “Just like me, alive and well.”

Leanne paused, then pressed, “Where is it now?”

“In its room,” replied Curtis.

Leanne walked toward the room she had designated for the cat. As she approached, the cat, perhaps hearing her, came out on its own, sniffing her and recognizing her scent before affectionately rubbing against her hand

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Leanne picked up the cat, stroking its head as she asked Curtis, “Where did you find him?” “Mathew’s gotten too clumsy to handle the lively pair at his place, so he sent this one. back,” Curtis explained, watching the warm scene before him, content with his strategic

win.

“Do you want him?”

Before Leanne could respond, Curtis added lightly, “If you don’t, I might just have to let him. go.”

Leanne, who had rescued the cat herself, didn’t plan on letting it go back on the streets. again.

Now that she lived alone, she could take care of a cat without worrying about Curtis.

“I’ll take him.” Her response was quick and firm.

People were not like cats. Curtis, who had no chance to enter Golden Grove Manors with a fever, felt a twinge of jealousy, “You take the cat, but what about me?”

Leanne ignored him, picking up the cat.

Curtis stood and brought over the cat carrier from Mathew’s, waiting as Leanne placed the cat inside and zipped it up. He grabbed the carrier before she could lift it.

Curtis held the carrier just out of her reach, “Did you forget? This house is now in my name, which theoretically makes everything in it mine,” he glanced at her with a sly look, “including this cat.”

It was another one of his traps.

Leanne wasn’t surprised by this turn of events, “What do you want now?”

Having found her weak spot, Curtis wasn’t about to let it go without leveraging it.

“Take me off your blacklist.”

Leanne was speechless and pulled out her phone right then, deleting him from her

blacklist.

“Are you satisfied?”

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