Chapter 5::Good, Mollie. I thank you for that. Gather the herd. We’ll be there before you’re ready to move out. We’ll go the hidden way, through the slot canyon to the east. The floor of it is swept clean of sand by the summer’s floods, so we’ll leave no tracks. Thank the gods there is no rain now, not a cloud in sight, so it’ll be dry while we pass through.::
He rolled to his feet and shook himself to get rid of the bits of grass and sand clinging to his skin. She could almost see him change before her, although he still stood as a man. The leader, the savage stallion, was there again. He reverted from the tender lover to the fearless, fiercely wild creature that she had so admired, the one she had given herself up to save.
“Up, Lenore. We must go. Dress yourself quickly and come back t
