No Help From Austin: Red: Book 5 by Darrell Maloney

Author:Darrell Maloney [Maloney, Darrell]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-03-23T22:00:00+00:00

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Red was aware of Savage’s eating habits. The whole town was. There weren’t a lot of secrets in Blanco.

She’d been cooling her heels on a bench at the courthouse square gazebo, chewing on a blade of grass, when Tad walked up Main Street.

While Tad was waiting for Savage to open the door she watched a rabbit hopping up Texas Avenue headed her way. No doubt to munch on the same knee-high grass Red was chewing.

If she’d had her rifle she might have taken him home for dinner. He was good-sized and would have made a tasty meal for her and her friends.

But as good as she was with a pistol, even Red would have a tough time picking him off at ninety feet.

There was a good chance she’d wound him and he’d hop away to die a painful death.

And that wasn’t Red’s way.

Besides, the gunshot would draw a lot of attention, and that’s the last thing she wanted to do.

There were a couple of townsfolk watching her from their upstairs windows already. She didn’t want to make it any worse.

There’d been a sense in Blanco since the day Red returned that it was almost over. That it was just a matter of days before she and the portly banker finally had it out. After all, an old adage says that the two toughest guys in any crowd with eventually duke it out.

And that’s largely true.

The town hoped it was true in this particular case. They were tired of being bullied by Savage. They knew what he was guilty of, and they were disappointed to hear the Ranger left town without him.

They wanted him gone.

The people who were watching from the anonymity of their curtains and window blinds hoped it was today.

When Tad disappeared into the bank Red lifted herself up from the bench and strolled down the gazebo steps.

She knew Savage would cut the sandwich into quarters and make Tad eat part of it. Tad had explained the process a hundred times around town.

There was no hurry. She had several minutes. So she sauntered across the street, quietly climbed the boardwalk steps and took a position adjacent to the bank’s doors.

She’d told Jacob she was taking Millie out for a ride.

“Where you going? Want me to come along?”

“I’ll take her into the woods. It’s always been our secret sanctuary. Where we’ve gone to relax and blow off steam. And no, I’d prefer not to have company, if you don’t mind.”

The truth was, Jacob did mind. He knew it was dangerous for Red to be out and about alone.

Savage had killed two of his own hit men. But that didn’t mean there weren’t others.

He didn’t like it. But he’d sooner lasso the moon than change Red’s mind once it was made up.

So he merely said, “Please be careful.”

Red almost never lied. She disliked people who did, so she tried not to do it herself.

Lying was almost second nature to some people. They could spin a tale a mile long and not feel bad about it.

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