Love Under Two Wildcatters by Cara Covington

Author:Cara Covington
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Book/Menage
ISBN: 9781610342704
Publisher: Siren-Bookstrand, Inc.
Published: 2010-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Morton Barnes sat on the edge of his chair with a glass of Jack in his hand, absorbing every word of the televised early-evening newscast. The on-air report, live on location from San Angelo to this Houston station, even featured a picture of the man injured in the drilling site explosion.

Until that instant, until disappointment flooded him, Morton hadn’t realized that what he really wanted to do was kill either Evans or Magee, or maybe even both of them.

He remembered Michael Murphy, of course. He’d been a what? Retired cop or something. No, Morton mentally amended, actually, Murphy had been an ineffectual tagalong, who, for some reason, those two no-accounts had liked. He’d never paid much attention to the man, possibly because Murphy had made no bones about not liking him. Well, the feeling had been entirely mutual.

Morton wondered if Murphy had been injured badly enough to die, and if he did die, would that hurt his former partners? That would be something, wouldn’t it? One strike, one measure of payback. The beginning of the end. The notion pleased him. Yep, maybe if old Murphy gave up the ghost, Evans and Magee would suffer.

Don’t see why they would. The man’s just an employee, not anyone important. Not family. So much for your grand plan, Morton. Can’t even plant a charge properly anymore, can you?

“It’s not my fault. That stupid secretary said Evans and Magee were scheduled to be at the San Angelo site.” Morton shook his head. He wished his father would stop talking to him. It was hard enough to focus on the task at hand without the old man chiming in with his negativity and snide comments every damn minute. He blinked because the newscast had ended, and he realized he might have missed something important. There might be more on the eleven o’clock report. He’d have to be sure to watch it, just in case.

“Hurt their damn bank accounts, no doubt. Debris all over the damn place, that’s going to cost some to clean up.” No matter what his father said, that was something, a first strike.

In the meantime, he had to think about his next step. Those two bastards hadn’t been in San Angelo this morning, but they sure as hell were there now, he’d bet money on it. They’d likely have to hang around for the next couple of days. The authorities would want to question them. Morton rubbed his hands together. He’d done a good job planting those explosives. Maybe Dos Hombres would be fined for safety violations. Who’s to say that damn place didn’t go up because of carelessness on their part? What he’d seen on TV, his bomb had made such a mess, they’d never be able to figure out what happened.

A new thought occurred to Morton, and he stopped and pondered. Did he want to kill those bastards right away, or did he want to inflict as much damage as possible, first?

You need to stop waffling about. You need a plan.

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