Wild Mountain by Nancy Kilgore

Author:Nancy Kilgore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Green Writers Press
Published: 2017-03-23T04:00:00+00:00

Mona packed her Tupperware bowl into her bag and hightailed it out the door before Frank could waylay her. Sierra, my God, had practically sabotaged the whole meeting, with her boob popping out and spilling the soup, then blaming Gus. But Frank had been impressive, with his knowledge of group dynamics and non-violent communication. Maybe he really could help solve some of the problems of Wild Mountain. So why was she feeling so timid and vulnerable, all of a sudden? Mona shook her head and stomped her feet in the cool night air. An answering stomp came from her left, and the limpid eyes of Karma the llama stared at her in the moonlight. “Hello, girl,” Mona cooed, and moved closer to pet the spot between Karma’s eyes. Karma continued to chew.

“Pretty cute guy, isn’t he?” came a familiar voice behind her, a sweet tenor that thrilled her to the core. She let her hand drop and half-turned toward Frank. “It’s a female,” she said, and was rescued from any more one-on-one by the appearance of Erica and Jake rushing up behind him.

“So, how do you think the meeting went?” Jake asked Frank in such a respectful tone that Mona almost expected him to add “sir.”

“I think we accomplished something,” Frank said, stroking his beard.

“Accomplished something?” Erica raised her voice, exasperated. “It all went up in smoke! That idiot girl ruined the whole thing.”

“Well, she may have been a plant.”

“A plant?”

“It’s an old tactic. The CIA used it in the sixties and seventies to sabotage the anti-war movement. Send in your secret weapon: ditzy teenage girl to disrupt the meeting.”

Erica and Jake were silent. Jake spoke first. “So, who—”

Frank’s face was a deadpan, but his eyes were twinkling, and Mona broke into a loud chortle.

After Jake and Erica left, Mona moved over to the fence again and petted Karma. Frank stood beside her, waiting for her to speak.

“Really, I think you were right,” she said. “We did accomplish something in there, and you helped a lot.”

He smiled. “Come out for a drink?”

How easy it would be to jump into bed with this guy. Too easy, she thought. He was too attractive, and she was falling too fast. Something was bound to go wrong.

“Not tonight,” she said, and turned to go, but not before she saw the hurt look in his eyes. She walked slowly back to her car in the moonlight. Should she have gone with him? Had she made a mistake?

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