Brand 5 by Neil Hunter

Author:Neil Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: revenge, western, cowboys, old west, outlaws, neil hunter, jason brand, western frontier fiction
Publisher: Piccadilly Publishing

Chapter Nine

El Paso and the awkward leave taking from Lisa lay far behind him. Brand had gone from her with mixed feelings taking control of his emotions. Now though, long weary days later, his whole being was occupied with his singular task. That of finding the three men who filled his thoughts. His search for his sister now over and her killer dead, he was able to devote himself to finding those men. The episode with Lisa had been a distraction, brought about by events he had been unable to control. That situation had been resolved, and Brand was determined that nothing else was going to stop him. Being with Lisa had shown him how easy it was to put things aside. He had wasted time, maybe more than he could afford, even though he knew it could not have been avoided. Now he was free of Lisa and he put her out of his mind. She had made it clear that she found his obsession with revenge repugnant. The trip to El Paso had been made more or less in silence. They didn’t seem to have anything more to say to one another. Lisa had turned cold towards him, though he had sensed she would have returned to their previous relationship if he had renounced his violent intentions. He could not have done that, and there was no way he could make her understand how he felt. No matter how he tried to see it from her viewpoint his thoughts always returned to his family. He could not forget how they had died. Nor could he rid himself of the shadows of the three men who had walked away and left his family to be slaughtered. Perhaps he was taking an eye-for-an-eye attitude. But he refused to ignore his responsibilities. He felt it was right, and he had no need to justify himself to anyone.

Brand reined in his horse with a savage pull on the leathers. He sat stiffly upright in the saddle, staring out across the dusty landscape. In the far distance a streak of dust whipped across the twilight sky. Shadows were lengthening, filling the scarred land with brooding patches of deep crimson. The somber mood matched his own feelings.

Damn!

Brand swept his hat from his head and drew a sleeve across his face. He could feel the gritty sweat that clung to skin that was dry and taut from long exposure to the sun. He spat, trying to get rid of the sour taste in his mouth. There were times when he hated this border country. But then he only had to sit and watch a sunset like tonight’s and the old feeling came back. It was an addiction that held him here. The southwest took hold of a man, engulfed him and he was lost. He could curse the land, hate it, fight it all of his life, but deep down inside there was a feeling for the place that never went away. It was hard to understand.

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