Comanche Moon by Virginia Brown

Author:Virginia Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General, Romance, Western, Historical, Fiction, Cultural Heritage
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Well, he was a little drunk that night. Anyway, that was a month ago,

and he’s been a perfect gentleman since.”

“He’s managed to gossip a lot, too.”

Exasperated, Judith snapped, “You just won’t listen to anything about

that savage, will you! Even if it’s the truth. He has done something to you, and I knew it before we were ever rescued.”

“Maybe you’ll recall that the savage took us to a fort while you’re at it,”

Deborah retorted. “No one had to come after us.”

“He had to free us! The Comancheros had seen us, and told the army, and then when that patrol saw us, they knew where we were. Oh, Deborah,”

she begged, her eyes anxious, “I know that he . . . he forced you. Don’t feel you must protect him, for God only knows what reason.”

Deborah covered her face with one hand. “I don’t know why I feel the

way I do,” she said miserably. “Sometimes I think he’s everything people say, but if you talked to him, I mean really talked to him, I think you’d feel as I do.

He has been caught up in something he didn’t create and he can’t fix, and he’s just trying to survive.”

“By gunning down men in the middle of the street? He’s no better a

white man than he was a Comanche.”

Deborah’s head snapped up, and she whispered tautly, “I don’t ever

want to hear that again. Perhaps I’m wrong about his reasons, but he’s not as bad as you think. And remember your promise.”

An unhappy expression settled on her face, but Judith nodded. “I will. I

won’t tell anyone who he is, but I don’t think it matters. He’s bad enough as Zack Banning, killer extraordinaire.”

“Thanks. I feel so much better.”

Deborah’s dry tone didn’t escape Judith, and she rose to fling herself on

her knees by her cousin’s chair. “I know you hate me for talking so badly to you.” “No, I don’t hate you. I’m confused. And I haven’t seen or heard from him since that first night, so he’s probably forgotten me already.”

“Do you really believe that?”

Deborah looked beyond the hacienda to the range of mountains

gnawing at the horizon. “I don’t know.”

“I hope he has!” Judith said fiercely. “I hope he goes away and never,

never comes back!”

Startled by her vehemence, Deborah asked slowly, “Why do you hate

him so?”

“I hate all of them, not just him.” Judith’s fingers dug into the bent

wood of Deborah’s chair. Her throat was corded with strain, her voice a

hoarse whisper. “They’re savages, all of them. Brutal, torturing fiends. I’ll never forget that old hag and her vicious treatment of me. I’ll never forget—”

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Comanche Moon

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