Chapter 115

I went all over the ground floor calling and looking for her; not finding her anywhere only worsened my mood. It wouldn’t be the first time she slipped away.

My nose became disoriented; the house smelled like us and it was very difficult for me to distinguish one trace from another, but everything made a little more sense when I caught the strong scent of baby perfume in the frame of the dog door, at the exit from the kitchen. The dog door! An anguished yelp escaped me. That contraption had been installed for a month and she had never paid attention to it; why had she suddenly escaped there? I stepped out onto the back porch and quickly descended the steps toward the park, following the faint scent of the cologne.

Then I started running toward the forest. The trail in the air took me by the nose.

“SASHA!” I shouted, calling her. “PRINTSESSA! WHERE ARE YOU?”

How could I not see her go into the kitchen? But she had been there ten times!

I didn’t have to l