Elena opened her mouth and touched the tip of her tongue to one of her fingers. She rolled the fluid around on her tongue and then swallowed. She noted that, yes; it was salty and slightly bitter, but not as bad as she had feared. It didn't really have any flavor, more of a texture than a taste. It was slick, but not nearly as thick as her previous lovers'. She looked up at him and noticed he was watching her intently. Meeting his gaze she brought her hand up to her mouth and began to lick her fingers clean. He snorted and rumbled in contentment.When she had cleaned both hands off with her tongue, she looked down at the rest of it all over her and smiled. She peeked up at him,"I need a bath."She stood up and walked over to her pack, pulled out her cooking pot and filled it with water. She took it over to the fireplace and using the poker, shifted some coals around and set the pot into them. While she was waiting for the water to heat up, she walked back over to him."Do you always
"I love you so much, fuzzy-face. Thank you, I needed that."He rumbled his pleasure at her using the nickname for him. They both turned at the sound of someone shouting outside."Anybody in there? Is everybody all right? Do you need any help?"They turned and looked at each other and sighed at the same time."Let's get this over with and hopefully we can get back to doing what we want to do."She walked with her arm over his shoulders and stepped up to the door. When they got to the doorway and looked out in the fading light, they saw a tall man in a green uniform looking around the side of the cabin. When he heard them step up to the door, he turned and looked at them."JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!"He fell on his ass trying to back away from the porch. They looked at him and then each other and then back at the park ranger. She busted out laughing and she could feel through the rumble under her arm and her ribcage that Dagomarus was laughing too. The ranger looked at the two of them stan
One second she was standing alone looking out into the dark; the next she had three hundred pounds of gray wolf huffing in her face. She jumped."Jesus! How do you do that?"He didn't bother to try and answer her; he grabbed her jacket and pulled her forward. He let go so she wouldn't fall, and leaped off the porch and landed ten feet away. He looked back at her and grunted."That bad, huh?"She picked up the pack and started down the steps. He grabbed the pack from her hands, squeezing it between his huge jaws. He squatted down and looked over at her, then waved his head, motioning for her to come over to him."What?"He lowered himself to the ground and looked at her again, this time his eyes pleading with her to understand. She did."You want me to ride on your back? Won't I be too heavy?"He rolled his eyes and grunted."All right, I'll climb on."She wrapped her arms around his neck and squeezed her legs together holding onto his ribcage."Okay?"He didn't answer.Damien took of
When Elena saw a flash of gray appear in the headlights several yards up in front of her, she knew she didn't have to worry about it anymore, so she sped up. She made it to Canyon Rd. without any further interruptions; turning left she headed for Highway 77 and home. She kept a lookout for the other truck, but they must have turned down a different road. She didn't see any headlights or taillights in either direction. The rolling hills kept the sighting distances short, but at night it was always easy to see the twin beams of headlights as they approached the top of a hill. At one point, she looked in her right side view mirror and found that she had a passenger. There was Damien in the back of her pickup with his head sticking out over the side, tongue flapping in the wind grinning ear to ear.She made it to Choteau with no other problems. She noticed Damien wasn't letting his tongue flap in the wind anymore. He had laid flat in the bed of her truck so that any casual inspection of
"Yeah, I'll have to dip into the savings account and buy a bigger bed. I'll do that tomorrow during my lunch break at work."He turned to her when she said the last and raised an eyebrow."Yep, I have to work for a living, fuzzy-face. Somehow, I don't think anybody in town would hire you."He shook his head. This was very different. Women working at jobs? Somehow he just couldn't picture her slaving over a stove or up in front of a classroom. Those were the only things women had been allowed to do the last time he had been around civilization. He looked up at her, giving her that quizzical expression again."I work at the local newspaper, the Acantha."That seemed to satisfy his curiosity for the moment. She watched as he walked back down the hallway and entered the living room. Seeing the large fluffy couch, he walked over to it and plopped himself down. Stretching out his entire length, his nose hung off one end and his tail the other. She walked in behind him just in time to see hi
Damien padded over to the table and pushed one of the chairs over to the corner, sat down and waited for her. She started the coffee maker and pulling a bowl from the cupboard, fixed herself some cereal. He watched her go through her morning routine. He managed to not drool on the table when she bent over to pick up a flake of cereal she had dropped, her pale white cheeks peeking out from under the shirt. She felt the stare and turned to look at him."Not this morning, fuzzy-face. I have to make it to work not smelling like sex."She gave him a kiss on his nose and sat down next to him."Are you hungry? What can I get you to eat?"He shook his head. He got up and went to the kitchen sink. He jumped up, putting his paws on the counter top. Turning the cold tap on with his nose, he started lapping at the water. When he was done, he turned the water off and came back to sit next to her."You are slick. Okay, so you can do some things around the house for yourself."She went back to eatin
"Oh, I went camping, but it didn't go as well as I had planned."She decided to head off any screwy stories by putting her own spin on the events before anyone else had a chance."What happened?"He had a concerned look on his face. She liked Jael, even if he was a little strange. That guy never went anywhere without a camera, and she suspected that he took a lot of photos of things he really shouldn't."Well, my campsite got ravaged by a grizzly bear.""Oh my god, Elena! Are you all right? You don't look hurt; how'd you get away?""I think that there were two of them and they started fighting over who would get to eat me first and I slipped out the back of my tent and ran for my truck."She wanted to get this out into the air fast. She had to have the two bear story to explain the carcass left by Damien. She knew that once jael found out about it, he'd jump into his truck and go take photos of it. Something like this didn't happen very often on the Front Range. It was almost unheard
After another hour of Rhoda's questions, she was finally allowed to get back to her work. Elena was surprised that nobody had come in looking for her while she had sat talking to Rhoda. When she walked out of Rhoda's office she spotted Mark, the manager and publisher of the paper, her boss, standing outside his office door waiting for her."I overheard most of your story. Anything you want to talk about? Anything I can do?"She could see that mark really cared. He was a good boss, a genuine nice guy. She knew why he cared; Mark had a mild crush on her, but was too much of a gentleman and honorable man to ever hit on her. He was her boss and his integrity wouldn't allow him to 'make a move' on her while she worked for him. Besides, he was married. Getting involved with a married man in a small town would be inviting disaster."No, I'm fine. Thanks for asking though. Please tell me you heard enough so I don't have to retell it again?"Elena tried the sympathy card, which she occasionall