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The elk charged. Clifton fired the gun. The bullet missed as the elk’s antlers connected with Clifton’s stomach. The beast ran full speed, with Clifton still attached to his antlers, and slammed him into the trunk of an old tree. Clifton’s eyes went wide on impact. The elk shook his antlers and Clifton’s lifeless body slid off.

The elk lifted its majestic head and looked at Kayley.

“Thank you,” Kayley whispered to him.

The elk trotted off into the forest.

Tyler rushed over to her. “Are you okay?”

“You came for me,” she said, touching his cheek.

“Of course I did Kayley.” He ran his fingers through her hair. “I felt so bad about what I said. I was just upset about-”

She didn’t let him finish. Her mouth was on his. Relief, mixed with passion and desire flooded out of her.

“I guess you forgive me?” Tyler asked with a smile.

She grazed his stubbled chin with the back of her hand. “You have to do one more thing before I forgive you.”

“Anything.”

She put her lips against his ear and whispered, “Take me back to your cabin.”

Kayley

Kayley had never fired a gun before, let alone at an animal. She had fired it right at the elk and it felt really good.

The tranquilizer dart hit him in the shoulder. After that it only took a minute of drunken walking for the big guy to go down.

Tyler and Kayley returned with some volunteers from the conservation center to find the wounded elk two days after the event with Clifton. She even managed to drag Al along, telling him that there might be a great show in it.

“People will love this,” Al said, as they hauled the tranquilized elk onto the truck.

“Wait until you see the conservation center,” Tyler added. “We have all kinds of exotic animals.”

Al had dollar signs in his eyes. Kayley knew that if Tyler could have a show around the conservation center that donations would flood in from the viewers. He could renovate all of the cages and grounds. Maybe even expand the center.

“People love exotic animals,” Al said nodding his head. “You two together would make perfect hosts.”

Kayley held in a scream of joy and nodded her head nonchalantly.

Tyler backed the truck into the elk’s temporary home and lowered the ramp to the ground. The elk, that they named Ollie, would stay in the center for about four to five weeks until the bullet wound in his thigh healed. Then he would be released back into the wild.

Tyler checked the bandages one last time and then leaped off the truck like a cat. He looked up at her and smiled. She couldn’t help but smile back. Kayley was really enjoying getting to know Tyler. She hadn’t been this optimistic about love in a long time. He closed the gate behind him and walked to her side. Their hands met. Their fingers entangled each other, as if they belonged to the same hand. He stroked her thumb with his and Kayley smiled.

The truck started to bounce and sway as Ollie began to wake up from the drugs. He swung his legs and bounced up, standing in the back of the pickup truck. He looked around confused and then staggered down the ramp. He wandered around the large fenced area.

“Enjoy your new home,” she said.

Tyler smiled and gave her a kiss. She knew she was going to enjoy hers.

THE END

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