Hiding Place by Meghan Holloway

Author:Meghan Holloway [Holloway,Meghan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Polis Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

twenty

GRANT

Hunting was a waiting game, and the wait was even longer when I was accompanied by idiots. The two younger Boudreaux men bickered back and forth as if they were children, not grown men in their thirties.

I refrained from informing them that the noise they were generating was certain to keep our prey away. As long as there was a kill at the end, the longer it took, I reminded myself, the more I got paid. At the moment, though, the thought was little comfort.

The idea came to me forty years ago. I was in a constant battle with Yellowstone over the boundaries of the park and with the Indians over portions of my land they wanted to claim as their own and build a casino on. My horses were not on a winning streak.

I was frustrated, burning the candle at both ends, and losing money like a sieve. When I almost took a whip to a stubborn horse, I knew it was time to take a break and decompress. I headed out into the backcountry for a week of camping and living off the land.

I blamed the stress I had been under when I came across the pair of poachers on my land and shot them in cold blood. I left them to rot in the wilderness along with the carcasses of the adult mountain lion and two kittens they had killed.

The seed was planted, though. The only difference between poaching and trophy hunting was permission and money. I could give permission and arrange the hunts, and I desperately needed the money.

I made it work in the era before predators were reintroduced to Yellowstone. After the wolves, grizzlies, and cougars were reintroduced, business skyrocketed.

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