Again; as with her hands and arms, her face was cold and felt like soft plastic or rubber. But it was very smooth; in fact all of her was. Cindy's cor...pse had no visible moles or scars at all. Just well tanned, beautiful, dead flesh with a few freckles on her upper chest. Deciding that I had already been able to do more than I expected and not wanting to get caught; I decided I better leave. But before leaving; I caressed her cheek and then leaned over slowly and gave her a passionate kiss on. The man turned to slap her. "Mister, if she isn't yours, I can't let you beat her."He pulled a knife and threatened, "Put your nose back where it belongs, boy." Let her go," I said. I pulled my revolver from my holster.He let go of her hair. She started crawling away. When I glanced at her, he threw his knife. It stuck in my right leg. He ran toward me. I was able to get three shots into him before he got to me and he fell at the horse's feet.I was surprised that I wasn't bleeding very much. "Oh Jennifer!"Bill barely managed to roll onto his side after he collapsed on top of me, letting me spoon with him. Well, and let me breathe too. He's put on some weight over the years but I'm not the college softball player he first met either so that's not important. What was important though was what made me slip out of the bed after his long slow breathing and occasional snores and snorts let me know he was sound asleep so I could go downstairs and do some serious thinking.No, what was. You might know there'd be another fucking bear outside prowling around. I let Biltee deal with it while I went to wake the rest of my mates and then Cowta. I'd let him keep watch while my mates dragged the bear inside and dealt with it. I was going to do my best to keep the scouting trip on schedule this time.As soon as Cowta was in place to watch over things my little scouting party headed out. Even though we all had a big pack on our backs we made good time. I was the main drawback. Even.