Free Along Came a Tiger by Jessica Caspian Page B

unmanned. He never understood why the receptionist hadn’t arrived. He was on sabbatical leave and wanted to have fun.
    He walked down the broad hallway, turned left and opened the solid oak door of his office. In the background, he heard phones ringing. The building was eight floors, well with over ten thousand square feet in one of the best addresses downtown housing with highly compensated personnel. It had three story library, fully equipped sauna, showers, lockers and conference rooms.
     
    His friend sat on his chair. They’ve been friends with Mike for a long time. He was like his brother.
     
    “Hey man, I thought you went on a vacation. You need to find someone and settle down.” said Mike.
     
    “No man, I still need to have fun furthermore, I haven’t found the right lady.” He smiled as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
     
    “What do you mean the right person? You’ve been with so many women, choose any of them.” He added.
     
    “I have to be in love to do so. Right now I want to enjoy doing what I love most that is, my job and hunting. Imagine if I get married, I would say goodbye to hunting.” He chuckled while pointing Mike.
     
    “I doubt you’ll ever get married. It’s the same story over and over; I wanna see you in love one day with kids.” Mike responded.
    “I will never fall in love, not now not ever. I wanna have fun with many women that’s the best part of being single. Right now I wanna go hunting and do what I do best, after that I can have as many women as I want.”
     
    “I know the best place you can go to enjoy hunting this weekend.” Mike said.
     
    “I want to do something different, if the place is like any other then I quit hunting.” He suggested.
     
    “It’s the Maasai Mara. It’s beautiful, but I hear there are tigers that are not friendly, so take care my friend.”
     
    “Don’t worry about me; if no woman has ever tied me down, then nothing can intimidate me. Don’t forget I’m an extraordinary hunter. I will challenge myself by killing the tigers.”
     
    ~~~
    Sanura sat at the table of the dim room silently eating dinner with Samira. She could tell that something was going on in that mind of hers. She had news which she hadn’t told her. She ate quickly figuring that she was waiting for her to finish before she could tell her the news.
     
    “You can tell me whatever is bothering you.” She said as she swallowed her last bite.
     
    “I have bad news from the other village.” Samira finally said.
     
    “What is it? Spit it out.” She was desperate to hear the news.
     
    “There’s a tiger hunter who has arrived and is killing tigers.” She looked disturbed. They remained silent for a while before Sanura said “He must be stopped, the hunter must be killed as soon as possible. Samira nodded in agreement. They were used to the peace and freedom of shifting any time they felt like it and they would kill an intruder without thinking twice.
     
    “We must think of a plan to eliminate him before he kills all of us.” Sanura rose from her chair.
     
    “But how?” she asked curiously.
     
    “One man cannot defeat over a hundred tigers, we will outnumber him and kill him.” She added.
     
    “That’s logical but he has a gun, remember.”
     
    “I know what hunters use.” She paced up and down across the room. She had to do something immediately. She was busy thinking of how to kill the hunter and never noticed Samira talking.
     
    “Hey,” she snapped her fingers on her face to try and draw her attention. She wasn’t thinking straight, she felt threatened.
     
    ~~~
    Sanura stared out of the window at the fierce wind blowing up the trees. It was a terrible night to be out there. She was glad she was safe in the house, but what about the others? The hunter had disrupted their peaceful lives in the village. At this time of the night, they would be running everywhere training the little cubs to hunt. She had to do something.
     
    Over the