Kitten Wars (18 page)

Fiona stared into her drink and muttered, ‘I
am
sorry for encouraging her to come over to ours.’ She looked as though she was suffering from an attack of acute indigestion. I
had the feeling ‘sorry’ was not a word that was often heard coming from Fiona Meerley’s mouth.

‘That’s OK,’ I said with feeling. ‘If you hadn’t, we wouldn’t all be here tonight.’

‘No, it was wrong of me, Bertie.’ (She got my name right!) ‘I promise I won’t do it again. I can see how much she means to you and how upset you were about her running
away. But the fact is, Bertie,’ she paused and looked at Jaffa soppily, ‘it is very difficult
not
to fall for her charms.’

Fergus leaned in and said quietly, ‘A bit like her owner, you could say.’

I looked awkwardly away, but not before I’d caught Jazz raising an eyebrow at me in a woooo-what-about-that! gesture that made me cringe with embarrassment.

Luckily Jaffa broke the tension by miaowing so loudly, everyone laughed.

‘I think Jaffa agrees with you, Fiona!’ Dad said.

‘Yeah, Bertie. You gotta admit it, everyone is well and truly smitten with me!’

I had to laugh too and, cradling my kitten in my arms, I cooed, ‘You never spoke a truer word, little Jaffsie.’

Anna Wilson used to edit children’s books
until she discovered it was much more fun to
write them. She took a flying leap from being
an editor to being a fully-fledged author in
2008 and has never looked back (except when
she has tripped over something). Inspired by
her family, friends and pets, she writes funny
yet heart-warming novels which are absolutely
NOT based on any MORTIFYINGLY
EMBARRASSING incidents which have
happened to her in the past.

Anna lives in Bradford on Avon with her
husband, two children and an array of pets,
including a dog, cats, a tortoise and a pair of
extremely noisy ducks.

This may not be entirely true.

Books by Anna Wilson

The Parent Problem
The Great Kitten Cake Off

The Pooch Parlour series
The Poodle Problem
The Dotty Dalmatian
The Smug Pug

The Top of the Pups series
The Puppy Plan
Pup Idol
Puppy Power
Puppy Party

The Kitten Chaos series
The Kitten Hunt
Kitten Wars
Kitten Catastrophe

For younger readers
I’m a Chicken, Get Me Out of Here!
Monkey Business
Monkey Madness: The Only Way is Africa!

And for older readers
Summer’s Shadow

www.annawilson.co.uk

Kitten Wars
first published 2010 as
Kitten Smitten
by Macmillan Children’s Books
This edition published 2016 by Macmillan Children’s Books

This electronic edition published 2016 by Macmillan Children’s Books
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ISBN 978-1-5098-0465-8

Text copyright © Anna Wilson 2010

Cover illustration by Matt Hunt

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