Terra gestured to a scar she’d gotten from the cougar, and Wayne whistled again. “Musta been hungry, eh?” he asked, referring to both the mountain lion and the coywolf for braving the animal for a deer. Of course, he wasn’t considering that it was a rash action; he thought too logically to imagine others provoking large predators for the fun of it. That didn’t necessarily mean that he didn’t get a thrill from adrenaline rushes, just that he didn’t seek them out.
He cocked his head as she mentioned coming from the west. Did she mean the southwest part of the peninsula, or the western half of North America? Anything would have sounded reasonable for him, a mutt born in New Mexico who’d roamed over half the continent.
Enjoying the feel of the water, Wayne dunked his head under. When he resurfaced, however, the cinnamon-furred girl was clambering out of the water, explaining that she needed to eat. Frowning, he called, “Stay for fish?” but she had already snuck out into the woods. The man shrugged to himself and continued to relax in the water.
A sizable fish snaked by his legs at one point, and he spent some time wrestling it to the bank. It wasn’t a monster by any means, but it would be a nice meal before went back to fishing. Shaking the water from his tail, he gathered his jeans and put them on before reaching for his knife—
Wayne blinked. Where’d I leave that damn thing? He swung around, clueless, brown eyes picking out the shapes of the twigs and leaves and not much else. He couldn’t imagine leaving it up in the tree with the basket and rope, but he double-checked anyway.
Double-checked, and realized he’d been duped.
Hands clenched into fists, and Wayne let a snarl out in the direction of the trees, though he wasn’t so violent a man that he’d go after the thief. He was mostly frustrated, and somewhat grateful that it hadn’t been the basket that had been stolen.
Resigned, the cowboy put his hat back on and gathered his things, making the lonely trek back to Casa.
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