Cougar Christmas Calamity by Terry Spear

Author:Terry Spear [Spear, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63311-064-9
Publisher: Terry Spear

Chapter 11

Before sunset and the CSF guys arrived, Emerson grabbed a lantern and Jessie had her camera slung over her shoulder. They headed across the snow-covered parking lot and down the wooden steps that turned into stone steps as they made their way down the cliff to the rocks. He hadn’t remembered doing this since he was a kid in the summer and skipping rocks on the lake water.

She took him over to see the standing stones that she had set up on the shore, but her mouth was agape.

“What’s wrong?”

“There are two more here, two more on top of mine. No one comes to your shore except your guests and you don’t have any, well, except for me. There’s no way to get down here except by using your stairs, and then down to the rocky shore, the water reaches the cliffs and no one can go either way.”

“The bears?” Emerson asked, surprised.

“Well, when I stayed here before, there were always other guests. The cabins were always full and people would mess with my stone creations. But whoever did this was creative, not just knocking them over and spoiling things for me.”

“And bear paw prints are here in the snow,” he said, peering down at tracks left around the area and then headed up the steep embankment.

“More bear fur was caught on a branch here, and then they climbed up through the trees.” She took pictures of the bear paw prints and the fur. “It’s the same fur as the type we found earlier.”

Emerson rubbed his whiskered chin. “They would have smelled your scent down here and though you were wearing gloves, your scent was the only one down here.”

“They knew I would return and find this like this?” Jessie asked.

“There was a good chance of it. They might have even watched you stacking the rocks and taking pictures of the sunset earlier.”

“And then came down to do this after I left?”

“Possibly.”

She frowned as she picked up an even smaller smooth stone and set it on top to make it eight stones. “It’s almost as if they’re trying to tell me they’re not my enemy.”

Emerson lightly patted his injured head, though it was feeling better now. “They might be okay with you, but I still don’t think they like me.”

She smiled. “They just need to get to know you.”

“Like you do?”

“I’m working on it.”

“I can sure help you out there.” He sat down on a boulder and she sat next to him and took some pictures of the sunset. “It’s beautiful.”

“It is. More so because I get to share it with you. I never thought I would be sitting around enjoying a sunset over the lake on a winter’s day at Whispering Pines Resort.” He’d never really paid attention to sunsets. The sun set and he was on a mission in the dark—that was the importance of the setting sun.

“Not something that you were interested in doing on your missions, I take it.”

“Right, and as a kid, it just wasn’t that important.

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