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"[Am I wrong] for keeping the cat I found?"
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The cat's reaction to her owner tells you everything that you need to know about their relationship. Cats don't react like this for no reason. The fact that this cat behaves so differently with you than with the owner is another problem. Cats are not “mean” for no reason either. There is always a reason, and in this case, it is very much clear that she would rather be with you than with the person who stresses her out to the point that she lashes out.
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Honestly, we think that you did the right thing. There's a part of us that thought, at the very beginning, that you should have given the owner yet another chance. But you're right - enough is enough. The cat could not have been clearer about the choice that she made when she came back to you after those 12 hours. Giving her back to the owner once again might have meant that she would not have been able to come back to you a third time, and that was not something worth risking. Keep her a secret if you must. You are doing the right thing for her.
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Person rescues friendly stray cat, the neighbor comes to claim her, but the cat is terrfied and returns to the rescuer 12 hours later, so the rescuer hides her from the owner and secretly adopts her: 'I decided enough was enough.'
The cat distribution system always gets it right.
If a cat suddenly appears on your doorstep and decides that it's time to adopt you, that it happenig to you for a reason. We call that the cat distribution system at work. Somehow, cats know which humans to reach out to for help. They have some internal radar that tells them: "This one. This one is safe." And it works. We, as cat people, know that. And we think that the person in this story, who adopted an unspayed cat that they thought was a stray, knew that as well.
Still, it didn't stop them from trying to do the right thing and attempt to reunite the cat with her owner, if she has one. Things happen, sometimes cats escape, sometimes they look for summer homes. Their owners could be waiting. And sometimes, like this time, the cat escaped for a reason as well. it is clear, once reading the story, that the cat was unhappy in its old home, that she did not feel safe, that she was scared. Once her owner finally did show up to take her, she reacted with horror, wanting to get away from them. She knew that her home was not with them but with the woman who rescued her.
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