A Silent Understanding: The Kilteegan Bridge Series - Book 5 by Grainger Jean

Author:Grainger, Jean
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gold Harp Media
Published: 2023-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Four hours later, the two men crept down the alleyway that accessed the back of Number 19, Clay Street, and scaled the garden wall. After jumping down into a flower bed full of weeds, Skipper checked in the waistband of his trousers for his Colt 45. Jack had been terrified when he came from Montana with it, but nobody had stopped them at the ferry point or searched their luggage, so he’d kept it. He almost never even took it out except to clean it once or twice a year, but he needed it now. He had a knife strapped to his leg as well, just in case. He wasn’t raised in the saloons of Butte and Bozeman without learning a thing or two.

Peter landed in the flower bed beside him, wearing a pair of knuckledusters. ‘A small bit on the illegal side but effective,’ he whispered to Skipper with a grin.

There were no curtains at the back of the house, and there Thomas was, sitting by the fire in the kitchen, reading the paper with a bottle of something on the table beside him, his bald head sweating in the heat.

Skipper cocked his gun and held it aloft as Peter tried the back door, which was open. There was a back porch and then another door. Peter nodded, and Skipper gently opened the door to the kitchen. Katie’s uncle had his back to them and never moved. The wireless was on loud, which was helpful. Skipper smelled whiskey, so it was getting better and better. He touched Peter’s wrist, motioning for him to stay where he was at the door, then crept up behind Thomas O’Neill and placed the gun against the man’s temple. ‘Do not move, just listen.’

The man swallowed and dropped the paper on his lap. ‘I don’t know who –’

Skipper pressed the muzzle harder against his sweaty skin. ‘Don’t speak either, do you understand?’

Thomas sat in silence.

‘You testified against a woman called Olivia O’Neill. Everything you said was a lie, so you’re going to write a confession that will be signed by you and witnessed and signed by a guard.’

‘What guard? I don’t –’

Skipper hit him a blow with the butt of the gun on the side of the head, breaking the skin and causing blood to spurt. O’Neill staggered to his feet, his hand to his head, reeling, then suddenly turned and charged at Skipper. His sheer weight might have knocked the cowboy over if Skipper’s reflexes weren’t so fast; he leapt from the man’s path, sending him crashing into the table instead.

There was a roar from the front of the house and the sound of feet running. Peter stepped to the inside door of the kitchen, waiting with fists raised.

‘Stephen! Look out!’ Thomas howled as his brother burst into the room. The men were very alike, both balding, both overweight, but Stephen’s face bore the signs of a life hard lived.

Peter flattened Stephen with one blow and stood over him. Thomas made a dash

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