True Love's Kiss
"Acknowledge the wrong of your ways and repent, and everything will be right again and the bad things will just go away." The bright-eyed cat flicks a sharp claw across the glass wall of the aquarium, making a small but soul-piercing noise, and lazily adds just as a tiny ray of hope lights Joe Morelli's hamster eyes. "Too bad the universe doesn't work that way."
Morelli sags like a punctured balloon upon hearing the cat's indifferent voice. It's not supposed to end like this. He thinks numbly to himself as his shattered heart sinks to a bottomless dark abyss. He was just trying all he could to save his last chance for love and happiness like a desperate drowning man hanging on to a small plank of drifting wood. He was just trying to make his sweetest dream come true. He was just trying to hold on to the love of his life. He was just trying not to let go of Stephanie Plum. He was...he was just ...
"However, there's always redemption." The cat politely interrupts and as if by magic, Morelli's sobbing immediately stops as his cute little hamster ears perk up in rekindled hope and anticipation.
"To reclaim your body and life, you have until the next full moon to obtain..." The mischievous gleam in the cat's enchanting green eyes not only sends cold shiver down Morelli's spine, but also drops a realization into his already exhausted messed-up brain like an atom bomb. "True love's kiss."
"You've got exactly 13 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes and 13.13 seconds to accomplish your quest, Mr. Morelli." The cat gives the chubby trembling hamster a full on 200 Watt smile. "I suggest you hurry up."