McCrory's Lady by Henke Shirl Henke

Author:Henke, Shirl Henke [Henke, Shirl Henke]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Shirl Henke
Published: 2011-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“You're fired! Pack up and get out this very instant.” Fatty Algren's normally florid face was crimson with rage as he waved a copy of yesterday's Arizona Miner in front of Ed Phibbs' face. His hands were trembling and sweat beaded his upper lip.

“You're scared out of your wits, aren't you, Fatty?” Ed smiled inwardly when his face went bluish purple with rage at her use of the hated nickname. Well, she certainly had nothing to lose now. There was no reasoning with the old fool. “Your friends in Tucson won't be pleased. Maybe Win Barker will even send someone to try and kill you the way he did Colin McCrory.”

As Ed gathered her meager belongings from the cluttered table in the back of the office, she was pleased that he paled with fright. Her exposé of the atrocious conditions at the White Mountain Reservation, as well as the article she had done mentioning Caleb Lamp's Prescott bank account, had made some dangerous enemies for the Miner. “You've got a lot of explaining to do to some very powerful men in Tucson—and some legislators here in Prescott, too,” she added with a gummy smile that made him shake with fear.

“What do you know about the legislature?” he asked with a quake of incredulity in his voice. “I won't be the only one Barker will be after, you know,” he added, his eyes narrowing to fatty slits. “I think I'll just tell him it's you who's done all this digging.”

She grinned sharkishly. “Why don't you do that—if you have the nerve to face Barker. I certainly intend to confront him.”

As the two antagonists argued, Maggie stood in the doorway of the big cluttered office. She had been about to knock on the partially open door when she heard Colin's name mentioned. That peculiar female reporter knew something about the attempts to kill her husband!

Maggie's thoughts flashed instantly to Colin, the man whose name—and now whose bed—she shared. So much had changed in the past two months since they had consummated the marriage that he had never wanted. Yet so much had remained the same. Colin went about his work, taciturn and cool, polite for Eden's sake, but unforgiving to Maggie for the way she had invaded his life. Yet, no matter how distant he was during the days, each night he came to her bed. He had never again taken her into his bedroom, that inner sanctum where Elizabeth's presence hovered. Maggie filled her days with work in the busy ranch house and tried not to think of the bittersweet nights with Colin—or that they might come to an end.

The thought that he might ask her to leave she could bear. That he might be killed was unthinkable. What did Ed Phibbs know about Colin's enemies in Tucson? Maggie had come to town with Colin to meet the special investigator sent by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Leonard Potkin, whose stage was to arrive tomorrow. She had only stopped by

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