Greatwater Lake **** **

She regretted it now - regretted ever entertaining the notion, even in the privacy of her own hormone-riddled brain. He reared up, exposing himself to her, taunting the traumatized woman before him with the mistake she might as well have made at this point - she had committed it in all but deed; that that she had only narrowly avoided being forced on her. The growl in her throat hummed like chainsaw, punctuated by savage lashings of her tongue through parted teeth.

Without a word, she retreated, slowly at first, half-stumbling on her own feet before she had the presence of mind to whirl around and flee from him for a second time. The last time.