GUARDIAN by John Saul

Author:John Saul [Saul, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bantam Press
Published: 1994-03-27T21:00:00+00:00

He had been asleep in his cabin when the first shot had roused him. Even before its roar had died away, he was fully awake and out of bed. He was half dressed when the second shot sounded, and by the time the third shot was fired, he was out of the cabin, moving quickly through the trees, following no path as he skirted the mountainside until he came to one of the massive outcroppings that commanded a view of the entire valley. Crouching in a shadowed cleft, invisible from below, he gazed out over El Monte Ranch, his eyes searching out the source of the gunfire.

As MaryAnne Carpenter began firing the second magazine, the man’s sharp eyes found the puff of smoke from the shotgun’s muzzle, and he left his hiding place, ducking low to the ground as he raced along the mountain’s flank, his bare feet silently carrying him closer to the veterinarian’s property.

At last he came to a ridge directly above Olivia Sherbourne’s pasture, where he crouched once more, still able to observe what was happening several hundred feet below him, invisible to the two women on the valley floor.

He cringed as yet another shot was fired, the blast of the shell resounding in his ears with a force that made him wince in physical pain. A moment later his flaring nostrils picked up the acrid scent of burnt gunpowder floating up from below. He saw MaryAnne pump yet another cartridge into the chamber, and he braced himself for the next shot.

Only when the echo of the last shell had died away and he saw the two women turn and head back toward the house, did the man leave the shelter of the ridge and start slowly back the way he came.

If she was learning how to use a gun, he would have to be more careful than he’d been before.

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