Angel Gone Bad by Sabine Starr

Author:Sabine Starr
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Kensinton Publishing Corp.
Published: 2013-01-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-five

As Angel clung tight to Emma’s back, she wished she’d read the cards about Rune. Now that she was handling them again, they might have warned her of impending doom, or perhaps doom had descended because she was using them again. Either way, trouble had come.

She wasn’t the best rider in the world. She wasn’t on the fastest horse either. But somehow she was keeping pace with Rune. It could only mean that he was holding back for her.

He was the one with a prison record, not her. She could only be accused of keeping bad company. And yet, he wouldn’t leave her behind. She thrilled at the idea that he might care, at least a bit. But she felt sick at heart that he might be captured and sent back to prison for running with the Verdigris Gang.

But did lawmen arrest people and send them to jail for keeping bad company? If so, she could be in just as much trouble. But it didn’t make sense. Surely someone had to commit a crime, or at least be accused of one, to be arrested. Rune had served his sentence, so he was a free man till he committed another offense. But still the deputies came after them. She must be missing something important, but she didn’t know what and she couldn’t think about that now.

Rune wouldn’t leave her, so she must ride like she’d never ridden before. She must ride like the wind.

She gripped Emma’s sides with her knees and leaned over the mare’s neck, crooning to her, urging her faster, stroking her neck. Amazingly enough, Emma shot forward, running her heart out for Angel. Rune kept pace. They raced into the night with the deputies no longer gaining ground.

Up ahead, Angel could see outlaws riding over the edge and down the other side of the bluff that had been cut by the Red River’s currents over the years. She wished she was riding that far ahead with them.

She glanced back and caught the glint of gunmetal in the light of the moon. Would the deputies shoot them or their horses? Surely not. But when the first shot sounded across the plains, she ducked low. She had her answer, and she didn’t like it.

Rune gestured for her to ride ahead of him. She could tell he was going to divert the fire by dropping back to protect her. She didn’t want him in harm’s way. They were almost at the river. Surely he didn’t need to use his body as a shield. But he gestured again, slowing his horse.

She held back a cry as she urged Emma faster. She heard another crack of rifle fire and glanced back. Rune was slumped in his saddle, but his horse still raced toward the edge of the cliff.

She was stunned at the sight. Rune had always been a tower of strength. Surely he couldn’t be hurt, or even dead. She felt like crying, and then she felt furious. Lawmen were not supposed to shoot innocent people.

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