Chapter Eleven
Raptors
Of course they had to go back to the lake for the carriage. Loughlin hitched Meris up and drove her back to the stables. Jack was standing by to take care of the rig and lent a hand with Meris’s unharnessing. “I thought you two got lost in the forest,” he joshed.
“That’s a trifle too close to the truth,” Loughlin said, locking Meris’s manacles behind her. With one hand on the back of her neck, he walked her back to her stall. As he removed her boots, she thought he meant to put her up for the night, but he was buckling the collar around her neck as Jack came down the walkway.
“I’m checking Meris out for the night,” he said.
“Fine and dandy,” Jack said with a smirk.
Loughlin clipped a leash to the collar and headed down the walkway with Meris in tow.
“She hasn’
