Forbidden Spirits by Patricia Watters

Author:Patricia Watters [Watters, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Western, Teen & Young Adult, Westerns
Amazon: B00LGC3KA8
Published: 2014-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Shortly after dawn, Tyler hefted the rock drill so it hung from his shoulder by a wide, canvas strap and stepped out of the stable. As he started across the pasture toward the trail he'd made through the woods to Whispering Springs, he felt something strike the back of his head. When he turned to see what it was, he saw Diana flying off. Realizing he'd stepped into the flight path between her and her prey, he dismissed the incident and continued walking toward the trail.

Fifteen minutes later, he stripped off his clothes and climbed into the pool and sat back and tried his best to blank out his mind while waiting for the sounds to start, if only because he'd promised Rose he would. But as he'd predicted, his mind was far from blank, and he knew that however long he'd sit there, the streams of images of Rose in the pool with him, while his hands traced all the contours of her naked body would not go away.

Eventually the sounds came, but by then he was too aroused to think of anything but the obvious, so deciding it made more sense to get on with the real reason he was there, which wasn't to listen to non-existent spirits, he dried off and dressed, then moved to the area where he'd been drilling before. After stuffing in his ear plugs, he strapped on his head lantern, set the drill bit into the fissure that he'd been opening, and started in.

He was in the process of widening the fissure when he began to feel lightheaded. Taking a deep breath, he held it for a few seconds and let it out slowly and took another deep breath, and gradually the lightness passed. He knew the hawk hadn't hit him hard enough to cause dizziness, so he chalked it up to having not eaten before he left, then started up the drill and continued.

During the next hour he made good progress, and after a while he thought he felt air coming out of the opening. Cutting the engine, he set the drill down and began moving rock fragments aside. Once he'd cleared away the rubble, he put his face to the opening and there was definitely cool air against his skin. Energized, he started again, this time more aggressively, and after a few minutes, to his surprise, a section of the cave floor, about eighteen inches in diameter, tilted.

He cut the engine and set the drill aside and lifted the slab of rock out of the way and was stunned to find what looked to be a narrow passageway, like a natural tunnel running beneath the floor of the cavern. Lying flat on his stomach, he lowered his head into the hole, and with the beam of light from his head lantern, saw that the passageway continued some distance into the mountain. The hole was too small to crawl into, but if he widened the opening, he could at least see how far back into the mountain the passageway went.

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