Chapter 46
What’s with you? Go make yourself a cup of coffee.
A scratching at the closed bedroom door told Vito he had another task to take care of before he could think about the sustenance of strong black coffee. Vito yawned and stood. As he did, a stuffed rabbit dropped to the floor, and Vito looked down at it and frowned. He picked it up and put it carefully back on the bed.
He opened the door. The girls waited outside. They both stood at once, and Vito realized they must have been lying outside the door, perhaps trying to puzzle out the mystery of why their master had gone into this other room and shut them out.
He dropped to his knees and kissed each dog in turn on the top of the head. He scratched them behind the ears. “Hungry?” he asked, and their ears went up, alert.
He stood and felt like an old man. “Let me throw on some clothes. We’ll take care of business, and then we’ll see about getting you girls some breakfast.”