Sentence:  The kitten followed Sophie everywhere and had <WSD>finagled</WSD> her way into free run of the house. Cooper didn't much care for the way the little beast acted as if she already owned the place. He certainly didn't care for the way she leaped up onto his desk, and sat on his laptop, as if to say, “Let's see how you get out of this one, cowboy.” 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.