Green Fire by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

"Stupid hunters," Rani muttered as she stepped gratefully into the security of her cottage. She plopped Zipp down on the floor and turned to face Flint. He had been surprisingly quiet on the trip back through the woods. "We should report this incident to the sheriff, not that it'll do much good. By the time anyone gets around to investigating, whoever was doing the shooting will be long gone. After those shots you fired, he must have realized he had come too close to something that wasn't a deer."

"I'll give the sheriff a call," Flint said quietly. He reached for the phone. "Why don't you go clean up?"

Rani looked down at her dusty clothing. She had pine needles stuck in her sweater and a few more in her hair. "Good idea. Tell him that those shots were awfully close. One of them broke off a piece of bark on the tree beside me. If I hadn't slipped on some needles at the right moment, I might have been hit."

Flint's face was very lean and hard, devoid of almost all expression. But Rani sensed the fierceness in him, saw it glowing in the emerald of his eyes. When she glanced up and caught his gaze, she felt an uneasy twinge. It overrode some of the relief she had been experiencing. Remembering the gun, she looked around for it. Flint had set it down on the end table that held the phone. Rani wasn't quite certain what to say about it. One of her many rules in life was not to get involved with men who were interested in firearms. Of course, she reminded herself, she was hardly involved with Flint Cottrell.

"You shouldn't have gone for a walk in the woods during hunting season, Rani."

"I was only going over to the lake. That's hardly open hunting land. There are cabins all around this part of the woods. Hunters aren't supposed to be anywhere near them."

"You've said yourself, they aren't always careful or law-abiding." Flint was dialing a number he'd found in the front of the small local phone book. "You should have stuck around here until I got back. I had no idea you were planning on going for a walk. We could have driven to the lake."

"Flint, this has been a very unsettling experience, to say the least. I would appreciate a little understanding here. I have never been shot at in my life. I could have been killed out there."

"Yes," he agreed, waiting for the phone to ring on the other end.

"So why are you lecturing me?" she demanded. "I need sympathy, not a lecture. For heaven's sake, I wasn't doing anything wrong or even particularly reckless. The short distance between here and the lake is posted land and should be perfectly safe."

"I'll see what I can come up with in the way of sympathy and understanding while you're taking a shower and changing your clothes. I might be a little short on both for a while. I'm still using what sympathy and understanding I've got on myself.

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