Only His by Rylie Dark

Author:Rylie Dark [Dark, Rylie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rylie Dark
Published: 2021-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

He waited for the lights in the cabin to go off and knew that the woman was in bed. She was getting on a bit and was a late sleeper and early riser, which meant his timing had to be impeccable. Some new tactics may be needed. As much as he hated to admit it—because he despised being wrong, or admitting to weakness—he had made too many mistakes so far.

He couldn’t afford to make any more.

These were delicate operations. He could almost congratulate himself on his own cleverness in thinking up this whole scheme in the first place, if it wasn’t for that sharp-eyed Fed who seemed to be hanging around the victims’ cabins. She noticed too much and asked too many questions. She had no business being here, and her presence was an anomaly that he hadn’t planned for.

Maybe he would have to take her out, too. It didn’t seem as though she had much experience with wildlife, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to stage some kind of accident.

But first, this one. The cabin was in a prime position, and the woman who lived in it seemed proud of the place. He had watched her earlier from the trees, painting the fence on the porch. She had looked up once, scanning the woods with a worried expression, and he had wondered if she could somehow sense him watching her even though he was expertly hidden.

Or maybe she was just being cautious, having listened to the news of the bear attacks on the radio. A lot of the locals who lived out here, or people who had been staying in the area, had already vacated. A couple of the guys had joined the hunt, which annoyed him, because they were clearly amateurs.

Most of them were, in fact. They only slowed the hunt down. You had to know bears to be good at hunting them. To be able to think like them and see the landscape through their eyes.

To see the victims through their eyes. To the bears, the people that they killed were just food. People that they hurt were nothing but a nuisance that had gotten in their way or, occasionally, were perceived as a threat. There was no malice in bears. They just were.

Although, when he had hung around to watch the kills through his binoculars, the spectacles of violence had thrilled him with their brutality. It was hard not to watch a huge grizzly tearing through flesh and bone with gusto and not speculate that, on some level, they were enjoying what they were doing. Just as a human hunter felt the thrill and adrenaline of the hunt and the final catch, an intelligent mammal like a bear, designed by nature to be one of the fiercest of predators, surely must revel in its own strength. Its own wildness.

He had almost felt sorry for the victims, watching those powerful jaws and deadly teeth tear them apart while they were still alive, but only almost. They were nobodies, really.

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