Puzzling Encounter by Shea Balik

Author:Shea Balik
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: MM Romance, Gay Romance, LGBT Romance, Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Shea Balik
Published: 2021-05-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

The waiting was the worst.

That was especially true when Axom knew what was coming. Well, not exactly, but he had enough experience in hunting to know the creature was waiting for something. What that was exactly, Axom couldn’t say.

In the beginning, he’d thought it had decided to hold off until Axom had let down his guard, but he feared that wasn’t it at all.

“What is it?” Dawson’s voice hadn’t been unexpected. He’d heard someone coming up behind him and the wind had carried Dawson’s intoxicating scent his way.

A twig snapped in front of him about two hundred yards away. Axom froze, for up until that point, he’d hardly heard the creature cause the leaves to rustle, much less step in the wrong place.

Dawson must have heard it too, for his breath stilled as if he expected the thing to leap at them any moment. As much as Axom would like to reassure the man that wasn’t going to happen, Axom wasn’t about to lie.

Five minutes of silence passed and whatever mistake the creature had made, pushed it back from advancing. He hoped. A lot of what he was doing was guess work. Sure, Axom had hunted and tracked his whole life. He knew how animals who were cornered thought.

He’d just never imagined the shoe would be on the other foot. It meant changing the way he was thinking. If Axom had snapped a twig like that, he would have moved away until his prey thought it was once more safe.

“It’s dark and it hasn’t attacked,” Axom finally said, keeping his voice barely above a murmur so the others wouldn’t get freaked out. It was bad enough he was, no sense in everyone losing their damn minds. Plus, it would cause them to start moving and talking and right now, Axom needed all his senses.

“What does that mean?”

He appreciated that Dawson kept his tone just as low. It let him still hear the stillness around them. Although, his nearness was a distraction. Then again, Dawson being there at all was a distraction, so it probably didn’t matter that he was close by.

Axom slowly shook his head. “I’m not sure.”

“But you have a guess.” No way should Dawson have known that, yet the confidence in his voice said he did.

He let his gaze drift further to the left, which was the same direction they’d originally come from when they were dropped off that afternoon. Then he glanced back to where he was sure the creature was.

“I had thought it was waiting for a better opportunity,” Axom finally said when his gaze was once more drawn to left. “But I think it was waiting for something else.”

Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Dawson following where he was looking. A moment later, he heard him inhale sharply. But neither said a word for several long minutes.

He could tell Dawson was scared. Hell, Axom knew what he was doing and he was downright terrified. If it wasn’t for the strong odor urine produced, he would have peed in his pants when he first felt the change in the air.

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