Kisses in Keystone (Seven Brides of South Dakota Book 2) by Kari Trumbo

Author:Kari Trumbo [Trumbo, Kari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

IT WAS ONLY A SHORT walk but the closer they got, the more she could hear and smell Keystone. The shops, the people, the animals, and the noise grated against her senses. Lola had tied her hands behind her as soon as they’d gotten outside the cabin, making her heart beat rapidly. She’d hoped to stay out of Keystone until the trial, but now they were there and she and Hugh weren’t married yet. She had no protection.

The man who’d attacked her by the tree waited by the mines at the edge of town, his hand wrapped crudely in what appeared to be an old shirt.

Lola laughed at him and handed his pistol back. “Here, I took the liberty of reloading it for you.”

Hugh stiffened beside her and his steps slowed. Lola clapped him on the shoulder with her pistol, but he didn’t budge. Hattie flinched, remembering just what that felt like. Hattie slowed her steps to match Hugh and crowded close to him. He’d promised to get her out of Keystone, though she’d laughed at his faith, she banked on it now.

A barber with a mustache comb stuck behind his ear peered out of his front window at them, then strode out on the boardwalk. He crossed his arms over his chest and hollered to a kid playing in the street.

“Hey, get Peterson down here. I don’t like the look of this.”

The young boy dashed from his game and rushed off to a building near the other end of the sparse town. Keystone was laid out somewhat haphazardly, with buildings scattered to the winds, not like Deadwood where everything was connected, almost right on top of one another. The barber strode out into the street in front of them, a formidable force with broad shoulders and a barrel chest.

“What’s going on here?” He glanced at her for just a moment, but Hattie didn’t recognize him.

Lola shoved forward, her man staying behind with the barrel of his pistol in her back. “You just pay no never mind, Horace. I’m bringing in these two for the reward.” She shoved Hattie away from Hugh a little. “This one’s a runaway.” She swung her gun toward Hugh’s head and Hattie flinched. “That one helped her.”

The barber narrowed his eyes. He was the brawniest barber she’d ever seen, not that she’d seen more than two in her whole life.

“That isn’t the story I heard. I have all the Deputy’s wanted posters in my shop and she isn’t on my wall. I heard she was kidnapped.”

Lola blustered and stomped, waving the derringer around like a toy. “You don’t know anything, Horace Littlefield. I heard Ros say she was wanted. I heard her man say there was a reward.”

Horace shook his head and filled his lungs, making him even broader, though, Hattie hadn’t thought it possible. “It ain’t Ros’s fault, but she should know better than to do business with a man she don’t know. That Roy’s a yellow-bellied side winder. I’m sorry, Lola, I can’t let you take these people without the Deputy knowing what’s going on.

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