In Bear Country by Kiernan Kelly

Author:Kiernan Kelly
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Published: 2011-01-23T08:56:53.575000+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Pride and Bear leaned over the kitchen table, Bear's map spread out before them. Their heads were so close together that they bumped noggins every time one or the other of them moved.

Outside the cabin, rain sluiced against the dovetailed logs in a never-ending patter. Spring had come, but it had arrived wet, bringing with it torrential downpours that had turned the hills around the cabin into a soggy, muddy mess. Between the rain and the snowmelt, they might as well have been living in the middle of a lake.

"I don't know these hills, Bear. Ain't there anything out there that looks like a skull to you? Or could be that it's some old Indian burial mound," Pride asked, tracing his finger around the black mark near the center of the map. "Seen a few of those on my way here from Texas."

"Not that I can remember," Bear answered, shaking his head. "I done told you I been all over these foothills, but ain't never found nothing."

"Well, you got a fresh pair of eyes to go scouting with you this time," Pride smiled.

Bear grinned, leaning over the map and pressing his lips to Pride's gently. He loved the taste of Pride, never tired of it, and wanted it more and more as the winter had worn on. He never passed up the opportunity to kiss him, to touch him, and likely as not one kiss would lead to another, and then another, until they both ended up sweating and spent.

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In Bear Country

by Kiernan Kelly

It was a fine life as far as Bear was concerned, and he was happier than he could ever before recall being.

Not that they didn't butt heads. They did. All the time, it seemed, and over everything from their nightly checker games to whose turn it was to cook supper.

"I cooked yesterday, Bear."

"No, you didn't neither. I made that rabbit stew."

"Yeah, well ... I had to eat it."

Lordy, but the man could be irritating. And sweet. And gentle. And sexy enough to put a tent in Bear's underwear every damned time he looked at him.

The good thing about their frequent arguments was that every time they locked horns, they kissed and made up right after. Bear smiled to himself, silently admitting that sometimes he picked a fight for just that reason. Although he'd never said so and Bear had never asked, he was fairly sure that Pride did the same.

"Wish this rain would let up," Pride said, as he stood up and arched his back, stretching. "I'm getting cabin fever."

"Yeah, it's a wet one, ain't it? But it's still real early in the season, Pride. It's bitter-cold up on the mountains. The snow ain't melted up there yet, and when it does we could be in for flash floods. Could be dangerous to go out too far now, anyhow."

"Sure would be nice to get some fresh meat, though.

'Course, with the way it's been raining and all, we could just chuck a line out of the window and catch us some fish.

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