Barron's Bride by Kathleen Lawless

Author:Kathleen Lawless [Lawless, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781999063528
Publisher: Telegraph Bay Publishing
Published: 2020-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“Looks like something’s up, man.” Secreted in their vantage point to watch Hawkes’s ranch house, Benjamin passed Barron the spyglass.

Barron pressed his lips together in displeasure. He already knew what he would see, and while he had been taken aback by Lily’s recent arrival at Hawkes’s, he was royally ticked off that she hadn’t mentioned it when they were together earlier at the hotel. What kind of partnership was it if they each kept things from the other?

One without a lot of mutual trust. He tuned out the little voice in his head that reminded him he hadn’t always been forthcoming with Lily, either. He had his reasons.

Right now Lily rode from the barn alongside Hawkes, mounted on one of Hawkes’s horses, and as he focused on her face up close, he saw she didn’t look any happier with the arrangement than he was.

He passed the spyglass back to Ben. “I’m going to follow them.”

“I’ll come with you.”

Barron shook his head. “It’ll be that much harder for two of us to tail them unnoticed. If, for some reason, I don’t make it back in a few hours, come look for me.”

Barron could tell Ben didn’t like this latest development. For that matter, neither did he. But he couldn’t leave Lily to ride off into the yonder, alone and unarmed, with Hawkes.

As Barron anticipated, the duo cut through from Hawkes’s ranch to the rear of the old Ross place which eventually took them onto Copper Moon land. From there they followed the river and climbed steadily up toward the cliffs where, not long ago, Hawkes had tried to kill Laura.

Barron followed from a distance, barely close enough to keep them in sight and definitely out of firing range. What if Hawkes planned to force an unsuspecting Lily over the edge and into the gorge below?

“Damn woman is too trusting for her own good,” he muttered under his breath. What had Lily been thinking when she started this charade? She knew squat about the realities of mounting a crusade to rid the world of evil louts like her old man. He and the rest of the Masons had been biding their time for years, yet Lily thought she could just waltz in where angels feared to tread.

Lily had precious little experience when it came to dealing with someone rotten clear through like Hawkes. Someone who held human life in such low regard.

He felt a slight wave of relief when, after some time in the saddle, the duo veered away from the cliffs. The direction they now headed was wide open, mostly desert, with little in the way of cover. Barely visible in the distance was the steep climb to where a series of caves held centuries-old secrets.

Barron didn’t like this new destination any better. Wasn’t it in one of the caves ahead that the now-dead newspaper reporter had discovered a cache of human remains? The fellow had guided Brody and Braydon to his findings, but whatever the reporter had seen had mysteriously disappeared by the time the three of them got back there.

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