Last Cavaliers Trilogy by Gilbert Morris

Author:Gilbert Morris [MORRIS, GILBERT]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-62416-471-2
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

Things were going exactly as Clay had hoped. He had Belle right where he wanted her and continued to press his advances.

“Clay…we shouldn’t,” she whispered weakly.

“We should,” Clay answered in a deep voice, caressing her cheek and her neck. “Belle, I want you. I need you. You’re so very beautiful—”

It was exactly at that point that the door burst open. Barton Howard, Belle’s eldest brother, was standing there. His face was flushed with rage, and his eyes were glittering.

Before Clay could say a word, Barton drew a gun and fired. The bullet struck Clay in the side, and it turned him half around.

Even slightly drunk, Clay was quick. His own pistol was hanging from his belt, draped over the back of a satin chair by the bed. He pulled the pistol and fired in the general direction of Barton Howard, who stumbled, reeled backward, and fell facedown.

Belle stood and cried, “You’ve got to get out of here, Clay! They’ll hang you if my other brothers don’t kill you first.”

Clay hesitated, staring down at Barton Howard. He was an excellent shot, and he surely never would have shot to kill Barton if he’d been sober. In fact, he had aimed just in the man’s general direction, more to scare him than shoot him. But he had been drinking too much, and his shot was wild. Had he killed this man?

Belle knelt by her brother. She looked up at Clay, her eyes wide and horror-stricken, her face deadly pale. “He’s still alive, Clay, but that won’t matter to either of my brothers, Charlie or Ed. Don’t you see? Even if you haven’t killed Barton, you’ll have to kill them—or let them kill you!”

Barton Howard, even now, was muttering and scrabbling vaguely at the floor.

Clay was still frozen, rooted to the floor, staring down at him.

Belle hissed, “Clay, don’t be a fool. Run!”

Clay looked at her, and then his mouth tightened into a thin line. He knew she was right. He grabbed his pistol belt and his coat and shot outside her room. He could hear heavy footsteps pounding up the west stairwell and suspected that it was probably Belle’s other brothers.

He hurried to his room and gathered up all his money. His side was red with blood, but he knew that the bullet barely grazed him. Cautiously opening the door, he could hear Charlie Howard’s angry roar from the direction of Belle’s room.

Feeling completely like a coward and a heel, Clay silently ran down the east stairwell and to the livery stables. Quickly he saddled his horse and mounted up. His one thought was to get away. He spurred Lightning into a run and headed away from the city of Richmond.

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