Megan Chance by Fall From Grace

Author:Fall From Grace [Grace, Fall From]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-05-14T13:05:12+00:00

Lily's heart was beating in her ears as she followed Texas to their cabin. She didn't want to be anywhere with him, and especially not this little cabin where they'd lived together the last few years. But there was nowhere else to go.

For a split second that morning, it had not been that way. She had thought she was finally free. It had been all Lily could do to keep from falling over in a dead faint when Josie's pleadings worked and Hank ordered Texas to cut the bandanna from Lily's wrists. When the dirty scrap of scarf was finally gone, falling to the floor, she had expected to feel overwhelming relief.

What she felt instead was panic.

Hank didn't believe her. In the end, it was just that simple, and she had looked into his cold blue eyes and seen the truth of his skepticism there. He thought she was lying, but he couldn't do anything about it without showing he disbelieved his son, and that Hank wouldn't do, at least not yet. He wouldn't cause friction by accusing his son of lying. No, far better to catch them in the lie, to watch and wait.

It was what she would do. Lily's jaw tightened. She would have to abandon her plans to leave. She couldn't run without proving Hank right. The moment she rode away, he'd know for sure she'd betrayed them, and he wouldn't rest until she was in her grave. All she could do was try to convince him she wasn't lying, to prove to him that the gang was still her life, that she would do anything for them.

She grimaced at the thought. Staying alive was just an endless string of "anythings,” of sacrifice and suffering and giving pieces of herself away. Lily sighed silently. Just once, she wished it could be different, but she guessed maybe that was asking too much. Maybe that was a wish that didn't come true for anyone.

They reached the cabin in only a few yards. Lily took the two steps to the sagging porch in a stride. Texas sprang the lever, but the door didn't open until he set his shoulder against it and pushed. Then it creaked and groaned, catching on the slanted floor until it finally dragged free and cracked against the wall.

The smell assaulted her; rancid grease and old wood and the dusty, fading scent of aging coffee beans. She saw immediately that Hank was right; the cabin hadn't been disturbed since Lampasas. Everything was just as she'd left it the morning of the robbery: the coffee grinder sat on the table beside a half-opened bag of coffee, the cast-iron skillet soaked in the washtub, the bed was unmade, the blankets rumpled and sour.

She felt as if she'd stepped back in time. The events of that morning came back to her so strongly it was as if she were reliving them. She had been nervous and distracted and excited, knowing that the life she dreamed of waited for her. She had ground the coffee but forgot to make it.

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