Libby: The Heartbroken Bride (The Brides of Paradise Ranch - Sweet Version Book 4) by Farmer Merry

Author:Farmer, Merry [Farmer, Merry]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

It didn’t take a spectacular afternoon and magical night of making love to his new wife—a woman he’d loved for years and now felt comfortable admitting it—to underscore Mason’s decision to do something about Hector. Whoever that man thought he was, he’d hurt Libby. Mason didn’t believe for a moment that the situation his wife had found herself in after Teddy’s death had been as cut-and-dry as she claimed it was. No man worth his salt would make those kinds of advances on a new widow—or any sort of good woman—without marrying her. Libby had turned down Hector’s marriage proposal, so there was no excuse for any part of his behavior.

Which was why the man needed to be dealt with.

Mason stepped up to Haskell’s jail, knocked on the door, then let himself in. “Morning, Trey.” He took off his hat and nodded to the sheriff.

Trey Knighton had been Haskell’s sheriff for the past two years. He was young, muscular, and had a scar that ran from his forehead across his eyebrow, then down over his cheek. Whenever anyone asked about it, Trey just shrugged and said he was lucky he hadn’t lost his eye. No mention of the circumstances that had led to that almost loss. Mason had the feeling Haskell’s sheriff might have been on the other side of the law at one point, which was why Mason was at the jail now.

“Mason.” Trey pushed his chair back from the jail desk where he’d been doing paperwork. He smiled as he stood, and stepped around to shake Mason’s hand. “What brings you out here today? I usually only see you when you’re bailing Cody out after a night at The Silver Dollar.”

Mason snorted and shook his head, grinning. “Yeah, and Travis has bailed us both out plenty of other times.”

Trey laughed, then stepped back and crossed his arms, sitting on the edge of the desk. “To what do I owe the pleasure?”

The corner of Mason’s mouth twitched. “How far could I go to put the fear of God in a man, as it were, before crossing the line into illegal assault?”

Trey’s grin dropped. “What’s going on?”

That was the other reason Mason headed straight to the sheriff the morning after his wedding night. If anyone in town would back him up in his efforts to get rid of a man who had hurt a woman, it was Trey.

Mason shifted, rubbing the back of his neck with his free hand. “You know I married Libby Sims yesterday, right?”

“I’d heard.” Trey nodded. “Also heard she’s newly widowed. I can’t lie, Mason, it seems a little sudden. A couple other folks think so too.”

“Yeah, well, you’d understand why it had to be sudden if you knew what Libby has been through.”

He fixed Trey with a stare meant to communicate how bad things were without words. Trey narrowed his eyes and nodded slowly, understanding at least a little.

“There’s a man in town,” Mason went on. “Showed up on the train yesterday. Name’s Hector Sterling.

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