I had too much to think about. I lay staring into the darkness long after my parents had climbed into bed and turned out their lights. In my mind I had already tucked them in, as though they were loving children to be protected. I didn’t want to take any chance that they would restrict what I had to do by trying to protect me. That was why I’d decided not to tell them what had happened. Step by step, I went over everything I could think about that tied into Pepper and Peaches. I ruled out our longtime neighbors as suspects. They’d been friends for years, and none of them would ever hurt a cat. Mr. Chamberlin might have been in our house uninvited, but he would no more harm Pepper than he would Peaches, and it would have been difficult for him to climb our flight of stairs. I couldn’t believe it could be Mark or his parents, the new neighbors, and even though Scott hated cats, what reason would he have for hurting the cats? No sane person would do it. I shuddered, pulling the covers up around my ears.
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