Intermission: A Nap Together

I'd Rather Have a Cat than a Harem! Reincarnated into the World of an Otome Game as a Cat loving Villainess — LNCrawler · All chapters

ONE afternoon, the countess returned home from a social get-together and had brought back sweets for her daughter. But when she reached the room where Amy and her cat should have been, she found it empty.

Her maternal instinct led her to the garden, and a gardener tending to the shrubs called out to her.

“Good afternoon, m’lady.”

“Oh, hello, Rob! You’re always so hard at work. You haven’t seen Amy around, have you? I thought she might have gone outside.”

“Aye, she’s over yonder.”

Half-shaded by his wide-brimmed hat, the old gardener smiled under his white mustache. He then brought an index finger to his lips in a silent shushing motion and looked pointedly toward the lawn on the other side of the hedge.

Looking like tiny mounds on the ground, Amy and Tigger were lying together at the base of an oak tree, snuggling so close their foreheads were touching. Their bodies rose and fell with breath at a slow, steady pace, totally at ease.

“Oh dear…”

“They were running around quite a bit before, but they’ve been napping like that for a while now.”

Amy’s body was bathed in warm sunlight, with only her face shaded by the tree’s shadow. It looked very relaxing.

Tigger was the first to notice Isabelle’s approach, although she had tried to be as quiet as possible. As the cat’s long tail flopped on top of Amy, he slightly raised his head and looked at Isabelle with his golden eyes that seemed to say, “Let her sleep a little longer.”

“What a good boy, always staying by her side…,” murmured Isabelle, stooping down to pet the cat while ruefully wishing that cameras existed in this world so she could capture the sweet moment. Tigger relaxed his eyes and purred happily in response.