Blood Wedding by Jon Sharpe

Author:Jon Sharpe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

After Angel was dressed, Abby gave her some lunch. Neither woman spoke to the other while Angel ate, and Fargo stayed out of the way.

When Angel had eaten, Fargo went with her to the barn to help saddle her horse. Her arm still wasn’t strong enough for a job like that, no matter how nicely it was healing.

When the horse was saddled, Angel managed to swing herself up on its back without any help from Fargo, who didn’t even offer. She didn’t look as if she would have appreciated it.

She settled herself in the saddle and said, “You’re not going to try to follow me, are you?”

“Never even gave it a thought,” Fargo lied.

It had been his plan from the beginning to follow her back to her father’s hiding place. He had promised to take care of her, but he hadn’t promised anything else.

“You couldn’t do it anyway,” she said. “So I’m not worried about it. Too much open country around here. I could see you a long way off.”

Fargo knew that well enough. But Angel didn’t know about his tracking abilities. He could trail her from so far back that she’d never know he was there. And if he could discover Murray’s whereabouts, it was possible he could talk the farmers into getting together and mounting a sneak attack. It would be one way to pay Murray back for Jed.

Maybe that thought didn’t make Fargo any better than Murray, but at least Fargo didn’t spend his time preying on other people.

“I’ll be on my way, then,” Angel said. “It’s too bad we didn’t meet a different way, Fargo. It might have been interesting.”

“It could still be interesting,” Fargo said. “You don’t have to live the way you do.”

“That’s what Jed thought. But he was wrong, and you see what happened to him.”

“I’ve been wondering about that,” Fargo said, but Angel wouldn’t let him continue.

“It doesn’t pay to wonder,” she said. “A man can get in a lot of trouble that way, and I don’t want to make any more trouble for you. You’re in enough trouble already.”

Fargo didn’t have to ask what she meant by that. He had a feeling that Murray might be after him again as soon as Angel was safe. Angel went on to confirm that he was right.

“Pa blames you for what happened to Paul,” she said. “It’s not just that you killed him. You put him in that shallow hole and called it a burying.”

“He wouldn’t have been killed or buried, either, if he’d stayed away from here.”

“That’s not the way we Murrays look at things.”

Angel turned the horse’s head and started to ride away. After the horse had gone a few paces, she pulled up on the reins and looked back over her shoulder.

“If you were smart,” she said, “you’d get back to wherever it is you came from and leave these farmers to us.”

“I never was too smart,” Fargo said. “Not smart enough to run out on my friends, anyhow.”

“Too bad. But at least I tried to warn you.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.