Clash of Mountains by Chloe Garner
Author:Chloe Garner [Garner, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A Horse Called Alpha
Published: 2019-12-07T22:00:00+00:00
She looked forward again, uninterested in his frontier experimentation. Man like him was always lookin’ for the next thing he ain’t never done before.
“So how come you guys didn’t keep one of the claims for yourselves?” Maxim asked. “Surely the pulling stuff out of the ground part is more profitable than just being the hired gun to keep it safe.”
“How you know we didn’t?” Sarah asked without missin’ a beat. She felt him look at her, but she didn’t turn her face toward him again. She was gettin’ tired of the conversation and thinkin’ on the best way to end it.
“You didn’t,” Maxim said. “You look down on the miners. Even look down on me.”
“Prospectors,” she said. “Miners are the ones what dig. Prospectors are the ones takin’ a go at findin’ the stuff. Most often a man is both the prospector and the miner, but it ain’t the miner I think is the perennial fool.”
“Ah,” Maxim said. “You think that someone who plays a game of chance is an idiot.”
“House always wins,” Sarah said. “Jimmy and I get a cut of whatever comes in. You’re the one might make it, might not.”
“But when I make it, I make it so much bigger than you do,” Maxim said. “And, admit it, you and Jimmy need capital.”
She narrowed her eyes, but didn’t look. He might have been more likely to die of silk scarf than anyone else she’d met in her life, but he weren’t stupid.
“Protection is what the Lawsons do,” she said, and Maxim laughed.
“Maybe in this two-street town, but Jimmy had fingers in every game in town, all up and down the coast. Oxala is harder to crack than you’d think, but he managed it in every other major port city. He wasn’t the biggest deal in any given city, but he was big in all of them, and there aren’t many other men who can say that.”
“Maybe so, but absenta is an illness,” Sarah said. “I seen too many men with that blue light in their eyes to ever go near it, myself.”
“So you sell the illness to men like me, with enough money to make you rich,” Maxim said.
“You’re the one who said you stand to make it big time, out here, the claims pan out,” Sarah said.
“And you’re the one who said you don’t need them all to come in, to make the whole thing worthwhile. To rescue your hometown from extinction.”
Sarah scratched her chin. He was diggin’ for something. Talk like this, it felt friendly, felt easy, felt like nothin’, but a man like Maxim, one who had sex for business purposes, he didn’t just have a chat, and Sarah weren’t the type to do it, either. She looked over at him, readin’ his posture.
It was a game.
It were all a game, and none of it.
He’d told her the truth.
He was ridin’ easy, as easy as a man could, who weren’t the ridin’ sort, eyes out, arms lax.
“Jimmy picked a good one,” she said finally, lookin’ forward again.
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