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Now that she'd had her first taste of lying to people, she felt she could probably handle it from now on. Anything but home-made corn liquor.
"That man that they asked to move on, that was my Pa. I'm sure of it, and the man he was asking about is the one I killed." Lissa told him.
"Well, who's to say the man didn't just move on and forget about you? Things like that happen all the time. The only reason I could see your Pa askin' about him is that he might have paid him to find you."
"I hope he believes what they said."
"We all do, honey." Jack assured her.
She got up and her head started spinning. She passed out.
Jack got her to the bed and laid her across it.
When Moon came in that evening, he saw her sprawled over the bed and asked Jack what was up.
"Don't know, Corky came by and they talked a while and he left, and when she got up from the table, she fell over, fainted or something. But funny, I got a whiff of whiskey from her breath." Jack laughed.
"I know what happened, Corky gave her some of his moonshine whiskey. God, poor little thing." Moon rolled his eyes.
"You're probably right."
"Well, we know who that came from, if Corky stopped by."
Jack looked at him and chuckled. "I'll be damned. Guess she was proving to him she was a man and could hold her liquor!"
"It isn’t funny," Moon admonished.
"Aw… come on, it is so." Jack chuckled.
Moon smiled, "Well, maybe a little."
The summer was wearing away and cooler air came down from the mountains.
Lissa had a chance to really get to know Jack. He showed her how to handle the wolves and not be afraid of them and they began to love her. Jack let her feed them most of the time now, so they would come to trust her.
Moon became even more distant though and Lissa didn't understand it but kept quiet. She had no idea what changed him, but she saw the change, felt the change and was sorry of it.
Because she knew now, she loved him.
Seeing he was pulling away from her, she began to think about her own life. Should she go and get a job some
where and move out. She hated to, as she had become so close to Jack and the animals. If she could get far enough away from her father, perhaps she could start a new life.
"Something has changed, Jack." She told him one morning when Moon went hunting.
"What do you mean?" Jack asked.
"Moon, he's not the same with me now." She told him.
Jack studied on it a minute. "You're in love with him, aren't you girl?"
"Oh, how I wish you couldn't tell." She shrieked.
"Lately no, but, if he is pulling away it's because he sees no future in the two of you." Jack said quietly watching her face. "But I think he loves you too. Sometimes, two people come together and no matter what the odds, love each other. I believe he loves you too girl but thinks it's impossible."
"Is it Jack? Is it possible to live happily and love freely when you are so different?"
"You aren't different hon, you do have different skin colors, but that is all. Your hearts are the same."
