Jonah by Kelli Ann Morgan

Author:Kelli Ann Morgan [Morgan, Kelli Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Jonah looked up at the menacing clouds looming overhead. There had been a light drizzle most of the day. It seemed as if the storm in St. Joseph had followed them. If the growing darkness was any indication, it was only a matter of time before the sky broke and the trail would become dangerous.

As if the gathering storm wasn’t enough to worry about, several times over the last hour Jonah had glanced behind them to see if anyone followed. There had been no one in sight, but it was growing increasingly harder to see as their terrain grew more clustered with high rolling hills and deep valleys.

Jonah glanced over at Emma. He’d stayed slightly behind her all morning to help provide a sense of security, but as the rain grew heavier, she sat back farther on the saddle, hunched down closer to the saddle horn, and hugged it in to her. She was frightened, yet even after travelling near most the day in the rain with only a few stops along the way, he had not heard one complaint. She just clung to the reins of that horse as if they were her lifeline.

A bolt of lightning split the sky immediately followed by a roaring boom of thunder. In seconds, torrents of rain dumped on top of them. Emma’s horse, Penny, danced about at the sudden friction in the air. All of the horses had become a little uneasy.

Noah turned his mount around and pulled up next to Jonah.

“There’s a small town just over the next hill. I think we can make it that far in a good twenty minutes,” Noah was practically screaming the words to be heard above the storm. “We can find a place there to hole up for the night.”

Emma looked up at Noah, then back at Jonah. Her hair had fallen into her face with rivulets of water running down her cheeks. She shivered. She had a chill, but it wouldn’t do him any good to give her a blanket now, it would just be soaked within moments.

Jonah nodded to Noah.

“Let’s go.”

Penny’s head lifted in the air and turned toward the east with her ears rigid and pointing forward. The mare sensed something that Jonah couldn’t see and before he could reach out and grab ahold of her reins, another loud crack of thunder rumbled through the heavens. The horse bolted forward with an unsuspecting Emma clinging tightly to the reins and gripping the edges of the saddle.

She didn’t scream.

Jonah whistled and slapped the reins of his horse.

“Hi-yah!” he yelled and Perseus quickly burst out after the mare. Jonah’s heart nearly jumped from his chest as visions of Henry being thrown from the mustang flooded his memory.

Rain slashed at his face. He kept his head low, grateful for the brim of his hat that protected his eyes and allowed him to see and follow the direction of the spooked horse. Another flash of Henry’s strong body slamming against the rock hard ground pushed its way into his mind.

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