Chapter 1
'I can hear you, so you may as well come
out of from where you are hiding and show yourself to me!' The tall man dressed
all in white bellowed as he stood up from where he was sitting outside from his
cottage.
'I was not hiding...I was actually trying
not to disturb you from your painting,' Bethany told a white lie as she walked
to the side of the large tree she had been spying from behind.
'Well,
you did not do a very good job of it.'
'Good job?!' Bethany felt her cheeks
grow all warm as she felt the stranger's gaze in her direction with interest.
'Of not disturbing me...I think a bear
would have been more subtle, you have made me now lose my concentration.'
'Excuse me! Are you trying to insinuate
that I am louder and clumsier than a bear?' Bethany spoke now with anger.
'And are you saying that you are
not...have you even ever seen a bear before?' The man refused to back down.
'No,
I haven't...but I have read about such creatures...I am not stupid I know you mean
to insult me. And you know what I will not be voicing the apology I was just
about to make you...especially on a count that I
can remember just a few days ago you doing the same thing as I, and watching me
when I was out riding.'
'You are quite outspoken for a lady
aren't you?!...I'm sorry...please don't go,' the man changed the direction of his
conversation on noting Bethany turning her back to him.