Marrying Miss Marshal by Lacy Williams

Author:Lacy Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2011-11-09T05:00:00+00:00

Safely back in town, Chas and Danna parted ways at the livery. He desperately wanted his bed, but a grumble of his stomach had him stopping in at the café first.

He still didn’t know what to do.

He needed to find and kill Hank Lewis.

He needed to protect himself, protect his heart. And that meant distancing himself from Danna Carpenter. Because he could see himself falling for her if he stuck around. And he couldn’t afford to lose another person he loved, not after what happened to Julia.

Inside the café, he was greeted by the smell of frying meat and the familiar waitress.

“Afternoon, hon.” She set a mug of coffee down and motioned him to sit at one of the few empty tables. “Meat loaf or stew?”

He grunted what must’ve been a satisfactory answer, because she smiled at him and left.

How could he find Lewis? At this point, he didn’t even care about the job he’d been assigned. James could send someone else to find the rustlers.

“Marshal come and claim that boy yet?” a male voice asked from a table nearby.

“No, he’s still in the doc’s office. Heard he’s in bad shape,” another voice answered.

A plate of steaming biscuits covered in thick gravy, eggs and fried ham appeared in front of him and Chas tucked in to the fare, trying not to listen to the talk swirling around him.

Someone slurped their coffee.

“…said she gut-shot him. Poor soul didn’t have a chance.”

Chas choked back words in Danna’s defense. She’d been alone for most of that robbery. It was a miracle she hadn’t been killed.

“I’ve seen her shoot. Wouldn’t want to be on the other end of her gun, that’s for sure.”

“Nor her temper. I heard she let it fly at Harold’s wife once for no reason a’tall.”

A young woman breezed through the door and joined the waitress a few tables over. “Mama! You’ll never guess who I saw riding into town this morning, proud as could be. The marshal!”

Chas’s head came up; he fixed his gaze on the pair. The mother appeared harried, carrying two plates to a table at the far side of the room, while her daughter followed at her elbow.

“Put your apron on. We’ve got a full crowd,” the waitress said, not appearing to pay attention to her daughter’s words. She stopped for a moment at Chas’s table to refill his coffee.

“But, Ma! She was out all night—with her deputy. Everyone saw her leave town.”

The men sitting nearby who’d been talking about the marshal now sat silent, staring at Chas.

Danna wasn’t going to like this one bit.

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