A Heart to Bear: Small Town Shifter Romance by Harmony Raines

Author:Harmony Raines [Raines, Harmony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harmony Raines
Published: 2024-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen – Tammy

No wonder Old Ma Hinchcliffe’s bull had gotten spooked and gone on a rampage if he’d sensed a lion up here. Tammy straightened up and scanned the area, stepping lightly through the underbrush, her eyes fixed on the ground. There. She parted the brush and crouched down. “Paw print.”

“A lion’s paw print?” Dougray carefully stepped to her side and hunkered down next to her.

“Yes.” She nodded. The paw print backed up her analysis of the droppings. Not that she’d doubted herself. But, by the surprise on Dougray’s face, others might have.

“Good tracking.” Dougray took out his phone and snapped a few photos of it from different angles, before going back to the lion droppings and doing the same.

“Shall we track it?” Tammy studied the ground as she made her way through the underbrush until she hit a game trail.

“Track it?” Dougray asked.

“Yes.” She came back toward him. “It might have a den up here that we could track it to. I don’t mean confront it, or anything. But with your senses, we should be able to locate it from a safe distance.”

“We should wait…” His eyes went distant.

“What?” Tammy studied his face, certain he was focused on his shifter scenes.

“My brothers are coming this way,” Dougray announced.

“Your brothers.” She folded her arms across her body. “Are they following us?”

He fixed his attention on her once more. “Henry asked if I would like them to help with the search.”

“Dougray.” Her eyes narrowed at him.

“Okay, I was worried about what might be out here,” he confessed. “It felt different…” He shrugged. “And it is different.”

“There are no lion shifters in Bear Creek?” Tammy asked. “Or no lion shifters at all?” She’d always figured that any animal could be a shifter, but she’d jumped to that conclusion.

Dougray hesitated, his brow furrowing. “There are a couple of lion shifters in the area, but they are very cautious. And they would not have been out in broad daylight.”

Tammy nodded, processing this information. She glanced back at the paw print. “So it’s doubtful they would have been out on the mountain the day Hercules got spooked.”

“Highly unlikely,” Dougray replied, his voice low and thoughtful. “Which means it could be a lion shifter passing through…”

“Or it could be an actual lion, one of the non-shifter variety.” She turned and gazed into the distance. “Either way, we need to be cautious.”

“Which is why we should join my brothers,” Dougray said. “There is safety in numbers.”

“You’re right.” Tammy headed back toward Sunshine who was munching on a patch of grass, completely at ease now.

Unlike Tammy. As she walked back to her horse, she kept glancing over her shoulder, scanning the tree line for any sign of movement. How did the lion get all the way out here? There weren’t any local zoos or wildlife parks that kept lions, and even if there were, it would be big news if one escaped.

Which probably meant the droppings, and the paw print belonged to a shifter.

“You okay?” Dougray stuck close to her side, matching her unease.

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