Dawn of Surrender: A MacKenzie Family Novella by Liliana Hart

Author:Liliana Hart [Hart, Liliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, western, MacKenzie Family, Historical, Liliana Hart
Publisher: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Published: 2017-12-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Four

“What were those papers on the table?” she asked some time later. “The ones you and the marshal were talking about?”

The lantern next to the bed was turned down low, emitting a soft, yellow glow across the room. They’d managed to make it under the covers at some point, and Elizabeth lay across his naked chest, her fingers stroking his shoulder.

She felt his sigh, and he moved to sit up. She rolled to her back and watched as he flipped back the covers and got out of bed. It was pointless to pretend she wasn’t watching him. His body was fascinating to her. And her inexperience in bed had made her timid when it came to exploring his body. But he’d encouraged her, telling her to touch him how she wanted, and telling her what pleased him.

Now she was more curious than ever. And anxious to do it again. His body was beautiful. He was tall and broad, the muscles in his shoulders a fascination to her. She felt the heat rising in her cheeks as her gaze lowered. He was completely comfortable in his nakedness.

“If you keep looking at me like that we won’t end up having this conversation until much later.”

He searched on the floor for his shirt and found the papers folded in his front pocket.

“Marshal Calhoun came all this way because the Silver Creek Bandits have escalated. They think my expertise in tracking, and my ability with a gun, might help them locate the gang and put an end to them once and for all.”

He handed her the folded papers and she opened them slowly, wondering at the unusual heaviness of the parchment.

“Their last hit was in Denver, and a witness managed to give a likeness rendering before The Silver Creek Bandits killed him and his entire family.”

Elizabeth looked through the images in front of her, and then she froze as she came to the last image. Her blood chilled.

“I don’t understand. Why are you in here?”

“I told you I had a brother,” Cole said. “What I didn’t tell you is that he’s my identical twin.”

“Oh, my God.” It didn’t take her long to see the possibilities. “They’re going to think it’s you.”

“No, no,” he said, coming over to her and sitting down on the bed. “The government knows about Riley. They have a file on him. I told you that we didn’t have a real family growing up. Let’s just say that Riley took after my father more than I did. After our parents’ deaths, we went our own ways. Until the war.”

A look came over Cole’s face that made her realize he’d gone back to those days, remembering whatever horrors he’d lived through.

“The Black Hills War was a nightmare. Right from the start. The government was so determined to take that land from the Sioux. But those of us who were fighting, who saw the atrocities that happened, knew it was wrong. It’s a hell of a thing when right and wrong interfere with duty.

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