This was a rather personal reading selection and he had no desire to share it with Angel. The sun was getting low, so Ted walked to the front door and flicked on the outside lights to the Chieftain. Ted returned and offered the beer to Angel. She accepted the beer from Ted’s outstretched hand. “Are you interested in religion?” When Ted failed to respond, she added, “If so, you should probably take this one back. You think you don’t understand it, but I doubt that’s your real problem.” Ted was still trying to get over an auto accident, a ruined vacation, and a wolf encounter, so he was a little slow to respond. He finally asked, “What do you mean?” “Have you ever tried to hike up a mountain with a boat strapped to your back?” Angel asked, waving her hands in the air and grinning at the very notion. “No,” Ted answered, suspecting that this woman had been en route to a mental institution before she and her wolf ran into him. “There you go. That’s why you don’t need the book.”
