Cougar In The Yukon

I was driving through north Canada during a heavy blizzard. I knew I should’ve stopped in the town I just passed to try to find sanctuary but being the age of only 24 I was arrogant. I’d grown up in Colorado so I knew how to drive in snow but I’d never been in snow like this.

I slowed down a lot upon coming to a long winding turn unfortunately it didn’t matter when out of nowhere a huge buck jumped in front of my truck. When his body came into contact with my grill and it rolled up the hood and right into my windshield spider web cracking it and leaving me blind. I stopped immediately pulling over to the side as the buck rolled off of my truck.

“Damn deer” I cursed to myself as I reached for phone only to see that I had no service. I considered going to sleep and just wait until morning but I had very little fuel so I wouldn’t have any heat for the entire night and I knew that could certainly cause me to go hypothermic. Luckily I spotted a faint light through the brush and knew it was probably a cabin.

“Good enough for me” I thought turning off my car. I grabbed my coat and got out. It was literally freezing cold outside and in seconds I could barely feel my face as I began walking through the snowy brush to the faint light. The snow was really deep and it added to the already challenging cold trek through the woods. By the time I finally got within 20 yards of the little cabin my lungs were aching from the cold air I’d been breathing in and I was extremely tired from walking in the deep snow. It took all the strength I had to get within arm’s reach of the door and knock twice before I collapsed. The last thing I remember before losing consciousness was the door opening and seeing someone’s feet come into view.

I had no idea how long I was out but I woke up feeling quite warm. I was staring at a wall wrapped in a blanket and I could feel an arm wrapped around my bare torso. Honestly it freaked me out a little realizing that was half naked except for my boxers with a stranger in the same bed with me.
I started to sit up and get a look at whoever this was as I felt the body start to move also.

“Good you’re up” a woman’s voice said and I turned my head to see her. She was much older than I was, I think around mid to late 40s but she was beautiful in an earthy sort of way. She had really long brown hair and a kind face with a few wrinkles here and there.

“How do you feel” she asked getting out of the bed and walking over to tend to the fire.

“Better” I said watching her closely. I wondered why a woman would live alone in a place like this, and kept my guard thinking she might be a serial killer or something. Although if she wanted to kill me I suppose she would’ve already done it.

She had a pretty nice figure for her age though. I could see she had very wide hips and a nice slim waist despite the baggy sweatpants she had on. She wore a long sleeve shirt and looked to be about 5’7 in height.

“Sorry I had to take off all of your clothes, but you were drenched. How long had you been out there before you got to my door”

“20 minutes maybe. A cracked my windshield hitting a deer and I saw light coming from your cabin”

“That was risky what you did in this weather, you’re lucky to have made it”.

“Yea, thank you so much for what you’ve done. I don’t know how I can repay you”

“I’m alone here as you may have guest and I could really use some work done if you can stay for a while” she asked with a concerned look on her face. I couldn’t really refuse, this woman had saved my life and I could never say no to a beautiful woman no matter the age.

“Of course, I can do just about anything” I said standing and joining her by the fire. I noticed her eyes scan over my body as I warmed my hands.

“Great, I think you’ll need these though” she smiled handing me my now dry clothes.
I put them on as she still continued to watch making me feel a little awkward.

“We’ll run out fire wood before too long, could you go under the cabin and get some” she asked pointing to the trap door on the floor.

“Sure” I said zipping up my coat.

“Great, I’ll get dinner started while you do that” she smiled and seemed a little too happy for a day like this.

I opened the floor door immediately feeling the immense cold as I climbed down and placed the door back in place as not to let even more heat out.