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Los Angeles. Big city. No mountains and rivers. I’m definitely out of my element here.”
    “How did you get lost along the E-chee-dick-karsh-ah-shay ?”
    “The what?”
    “The Roche Jaune . . .Yellow Rock River.”
    Comprehension dawned. “You mean the Yellowstone River?  Some buddies and I were camping in the canyon. The next morning, they were gone. I climbed out and apparently got lost looking for the road back to Canyon.” No need to go into detail with her that he was drunk out of his mind the night before, or that his buddies had deliberately pulled a vanishing act on him.
    “You climbed out from the canyon? How did you get down there?” Her eyes grew round in disbelief.
    “Same way I came up, Angel. I know that wasn’t the smartest thing to do. I’ll probably get in a heap of trouble for it.”
    Chase’s stomach growled loudly. The little angel must have heard it. She made a wide arc around him to the workbench along the wall, and reached for a bowl on a wooden shelf above her head, giving him an enticing view of her backside. Knock it off, Russell. Get your mind out of the gutter .
    She ladled soup into the bowl from the kettle in the fireplace, and set it in front of him along with a spoon.  He looked up and met her eyes.
    “Do you have a name?” she asked softly.
    “I’m sorry. My name’s Chase.”
    A smile spread across her pretty face, and he suppressed a groan. Then she giggled. “That’s an odd name. What do you chase?”
    He couldn’t help but smile in return.  “Uh . . . I don’t know. No one’s ever asked me that before.”
    “I’m Sarah. I will forgive your behavior earlier.  Now eat, before it gets cold . . . Chase.”  He stared after her dumbfounded after she’d turned and headed up that ladder into the loft.
    “Thank you,” he said quietly to the empty space she had occupied moments before, and spooned broth into his mouth. It tasted as simple and earthy as everything around him, but he’d never eaten anything better in his life.
     

 
    Chapter 5
     
     
    Sarah rummaged through the heavy wooden trunk in the corner of the loft.  Her brother Samuel wouldn’t mind if she loaned some of his clothing to this stranger. They were probably close enough in size. Samuel had always been bigger than her twin brothers, Zach and Matt.
    Chase. What an odd name. But she liked the way it sounded when he said it. For his size, he didn’t seem so intimidating after all. True, he had been extremely rude earlier when he pulled her onto the bed, but she’d had no trouble fending him off, and he certainly hadn’t put up any kind of fight. Perhaps he was still too weak. Something told her that she had nothing to fear from this man.
    His strange words and the way he spoke were peculiar. Sarah only knew one other person who used words no one else seemed to know. Her mother. But this man had said he was from a big city. Her mother had grown up in a big city as well. Sarah had never been further east than St. Louis, and that suited her just fine. Her parents had suggested they travel to New York one year, to see her mother’s place of birth. If New York was anything like St. Louis or Fort Raymond, she had no interest in going. She enjoyed her life in the mountains. She had enough friends among the Tukudeka women that she never felt lonely. She did miss her brothers, though. It seemed as if they stayed away longer each year.
    Sarah heard a scraping noise below. Chase must have gotten up from the table.
    “Uh . . . Sarah,” he called.
    “Just a moment.” She grabbed a blue flannel shirt from the trunk and climbed back down the ladder. When she turned, he was standing next to the table, his face rather devoid of color.
    “You should lie down,” she said. Walking up to him, she reached her hand up and placed it against his forehead. “You’re not hot, but you need time for your body to recover. You’ve been through quite an ordeal.”
    His green eyes stared down at her. Sarah willed