A Town Called Fury by J.A. Johnstone

Author:J.A. Johnstone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2014-12-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Megan MacDonald had never been so scared in her whole life. She had seen violence before. She had been there when the Comanches attacked the wagon train and when the Apaches tried to lay waste to Fury. Those experiences had been terrifying, but they had also been so hectic that Megan hadn’t had time for the fear to really soak in on her.

That wasn’t the case now. The outlaws had visited more death and destruction on Fury than even the Apaches would have. These men were more savage than the so-called savages. And since Megan had been their prisoner for hours now, she’d had plenty of time to think about the perilous situation in which she found herself.

Jenny’s quiet sobbing didn’t help matters. The younger girl hadn’t stopped crying ever since the outlaws had ceased their breakneck flight and pulled their horses back to a steady, inevitable, ground-eating lope that carried them farther south, inexorably toward Mexico. The man who had Jenny in front of him on his horse’s back didn’t seem to mind her sobs. In fact, he acted like he found her terror amusing.

Megan was trying very hard not to let herself cry. She didn’t want to show any weakness, not with the ordeal she and the other prisoners had facing them. Her captors might assault her, might even kill her, but they wouldn’t break her, she vowed.

Brave intentions, but they might prove difficult to live up to.

The man who had grabbed her up off the street as she tried to reach safety during the attack on the settlement still carried her in front of him on his horse. His left arm was looped around her, not particularly tightly now, but she knew that if she tried to escape, his grip would clamp down on her like an iron band.

Earlier, he had fondled her breasts, squeezing them until she wanted to gasp in pain. Thankfully, he had seemed to grow bored with that, and now just held her on the horse. Her fear had eased a bit, and as it did, she realized that there had been something familiar about him when she caught a glimpse of his face as he jerked her up off her feet and dragged her onto the horse. She hadn’t realized who he was, though, until he said, “Don’t you fight, little one, and Flores will treat you nice.”

The outlaw was the man Jason had arrested a couple of weeks earlier for wounding Wash Keough in Abigail’s place. Megan wondered if the other two men who had been with Flores were also part of this bandit gang. It made sense that they would be. In fact, as she thought about it to distract her mind from her own desperate plight, she realized that the three hardcases must have ventured into Fury to scout out the settlement. To decide if it would be worth Juan Alba’s while to raid it.

Obviously, the answer had been yes.

She knew the leader of the gang was Juan

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