Animal Rescue Bear by Raines Harmony

Author:Raines, Harmony
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2018-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen – Ronni

Ronni hated the unknown. Which was probably why the sale of the land was so hard for her to deal with. Even with the offer from Carter, she couldn’t rest easily.

The unknown was a noise in the dark, a shadowy figure at the window. The unknown was kittens lost down a storm drain.

Were they dead or alive?

Lucas reached for her hand. “This way.” They ducked down and made their way under an overgrown thicket with Jessie leading the way. She moved with confidence, her tail wagging as she followed an invisible trail.

“I hope she isn’t just on the trail of a rabbit.” Ronni tripped over a tree root, and only Lucas’s strong arms stopped her from falling flat on her face.

Righting herself, she smoothed her hair back into its messy ponytail. Where were those kittens?

A sharp bark from Jessie hurried them on and they caught up with her as she snuffled in the undergrowth, searching for something. But what?

“Did Sian say who had called in with the information?” Lucas asked, looking around them. “This isn’t exactly the kind of place you just happen to be walking past.”

“I agree.” Ronni turned in a circle and then stopped, peering into the undergrowth. “There.”

Jessie was already on the trail, heading toward a clearing where a man lay on his stomach, staring into a narrow tunnel. “You’re here.” He looked up, his face and clothes mud-stained from where he’d been lying on the ground.

“Did you call about the lost kittens?” Lucas asked, his voice deep, protective.

“I did.” The man scrambled to his feet and thrust out a dirty hand. “Harrison Dimmock.”

“Hi, Harrison.” Ronni nodded in greeting and got straight down to business. “How do you know the kittens are down there?”

Harrison knelt back down and put his ear to the opening. “I can hear them. I’ve been here for an hour now. They were crying as if they were hungry, but I haven’t seen the mother cat.”

“Perhaps she’s here somewhere and is too frightened to come back,” Lucas suggested, looking around.

“I thought the same thing. Which is why I set my trail camera up at the entrance and moved out of sight. Still nothing.” Concern showed in Harrison’s expression and his voice.

Ronni scrambled over a tree root and knelt beside him. Sure enough, tiny mewling noises echoed down the tunnel. “Okay, we need to get them out of there. But how?”

The tunnel wasn’t a storm drain, it looked more like an abandoned drainage pipe that went nowhere. She crouched down further, took out her flashlight and shone it down the pipe, which was too small for anyone other than a small child to enter. This was going to be tricky.

“The pipe goes all the way back to the barns. I used to come over here with my dad when I was a kid. He worked here when it was part of a larger estate.” Harrison pointed into the dense undergrowth.

“Can we get to the kittens from the other end?” Ronni asked.

Harrison shook his head.

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