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breath
of fresh air would clear his head and now here he was in the woods in the dark.
     He
reached the crest to see where the wide rushing creek went.  He heard a dove
coo.  He thought nothing of it, but she looked around.  There was a small
waterfall that fell into a deep pool on the other side.  It splashed soft and
inviting. He imagined it to be cool on this humid night.   She was there under
the falls with her hair loose and her head leaned back. The moonlight fell
across her, she could have been a dream. She was too beautiful.   The water fell
onto her head and caressed her naked body with its wetness.  He watched her,
fascinated.  His fingers unknowingly unfastened the gallowses of his overalls;
they fell to his feet.  Thomas’ eyes never left her.  He slipped from his boots
and clothes and kicked them aside.  His eyes were still fixed on her.  Her long
hair hung down covering most of her body.  Thomas wondered how deep it was. 
Judging by her height in the water it was only five feet or so.  He walked down
instead.  The smell of creek water and minerals grew more intense.  Kat saw him
making his way down the rocks and saw he had removed his clothes already.  He
had followed her here.  She heard the dove again. There was no mistaking it was
Great Bear warning her.  She hurriedly escaped from the pool, leaving it on the
opposite side.  Kat got dressed while she walked away returning his call to let
her know she was safe and that she’d heard him.  Thomas saw her climb up and
over the hill and followed her.  She walked out of the woods and hurried home,
he frightened her, because she knew not his intentions.  He could want to do
things to her she was not ready for and this grew into a fear that pounded her
heart and twisted her insides into knots.   He waited until she was safe in the
barn before going to bed.  His sleep was fitful and it was caused by dreams of
moon-silvered limbs and breasts. 
    She
banged pots and pans loudly the next morning.  She seemed angry but Thomas
thought it to be a lack of sleep until she confronted him.
    “You
make it a habit to peep at people Thomas?  Are you where the saying peeping Tom
came from?”  She asked almost throwing his breakfast at him.  He did not know
what to say.  “I know you were watching me last night in the creek, did you get
an eyeful?”  She hissed leaning over the table inches from his flushed face. 
He could feel the air from her whoosh over his skin.
    “I
wanted to be sure you were safe.”  He would not look at her and reveal his
shame.
    “Bull
shit.  Any woman who can take a cougar down with a hunting knife does not need
protected.”  She went back to the stove.  “What were you going to protect me
from anyway?  A better question is how were you going to protect me with your
clothes at the top of the hill and no weapons?  You’d best concentrate on
protecting yourself, Great Bear and his braves were watching you, did you hear
the doves?  Those were my friends.”
    "I
never saw you take down any cougar, and you did not have a knife last night. 
And how was I supposed to know that you have Indian bodyguards.”  Kat whipped a
hunting knife from her waist and threw it so fast he did not see it coming
until a vase on the shelf above him shattered.  Glass shards rained down on him
and the floor in a loud explosion.
    “I
have it today though.  If you peep at me again, that will be your heart.”  She
choked back tears.
    'She’ll
slit your throat where you sleep.'  Jacob’s words echoed through his mind.
    “I
am very sorry Kat. When I followed you from the barn, I swear my intentions
were honorable.  I thought you were going after whiskey perhaps and I was
concerned for your safety, but you are right.  I should mind my manners.  I had
no business watching you.  It will not happen again.”  His gray eyes were soft
and soulful. 
    “See
that it does not.”  She sat down with her pancakes and