26. Epilogue
Kristoff warned me that there would be no babies and I have to say I agree with him. Cats are just fine. I like them a lot.
And when Falstaff died at the ripe old age of nineteen, I absolutely did not cry for a week.
No cat will ever replace Falstaff, but Kit got me a tiny white kitten with blue eyes and a pink nose. We named her Ophelia and she is a holy terror. Polonius and Laertes have completely caved under her alpha behavior. She runs the house and she knows it.
Veronica got her post-graduate degree and teaches law at Northwestern. She still doesn't date and we still meet up for coffee and dessert, only now we have Kit there will us too. I always order a slice of sacher-torte because I know it's his favorite. Kit is slowly working his way through the dessert menu to see if he can find something he likes even better than sacher-torte. When he gets something he doesn't like, I hand over his favorite and eat whatever he ordered. We also have a standing appointment to go to the drag queen brunch at La Luna twice a month. Kit finds the queens captivating and I love seeing him so excited.
Nonna and Mom rattle around the world together now that Mom's cancer is in remission. They're currently in the Maldives. I'm not exactly sure where the Maldives are, but from the pictures, it looks nice.
No one has seen or heard from Baldwin. I haven't said so to Kit, but I'm about ninety-nine percent sure that Nonna had him offed. She's never come out and said as much, but Julian was her favorite and it tore her apart when he died. She still feels regret over Kit's upbringing, and probably always will, but whenever I get a chance I remind her that Kit loves her and he loves very few people.
He also loves me. He's sickeningly stupid in love with me. It would be embarrassing if I didn't feel exactly the same way. I'm still no romantic and never will be. Kit doesn't seem to mind as long as he has my touch and attention and control. As for Kit, loving him is the easiest thing I've ever done. I don't know what I'd do without him, and hopefully I'll never have to find out.
He's my everything and I'm never letting him go.