Pioneer Valor (The O'Rourke Family Montana Saga Book 10) by Ramona Flightner

Author:Ramona Flightner [Flightner, Ramona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945609770
Publisher: Grizzly Damsel Publishing
Published: 2023-03-08T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Barging inside, Oran pushed past the beast of the man named Ezra and raced to the back of the Bordello to the office he’d visited once with Da. Pushing the door open, he bent over with his hands on his knees, panting as he gasped out, “Tell me I’m not too late. Tell me!”

With an amused smile, Nora rose from her desk, elegant as always in a shimmering blue dress, as she waved away an enraged Ezra. After the door clicked behind Ezra, she pointed at a chair, and Oran plopped onto it, still gasping. “Whiskey?” she asked him.

At his nod, she poured him a generous amount and watched as he sipped at it. “I’d thought you’d want to keep a clear head, not go about drinking spirits.”

“Please, no riddles. I’m not smart enough for them, and I need to know.” He paused, absolute terror in his gaze. “Am I too late?” He perfectly enunciated each word, lest he be misunderstood.

At her soft nod, he let out a yowl and rose, hurling the tumbler of whiskey into the fireplace. His shoulders shook, as he faced the fireplace, and a soft keening filled the room.

“Why are you O’Rourke men so attached to one woman?” Nora mused. “I find it remarkable how you find the woman of your heart, and she is all you want.”

Oran spun to face her, his eyes ravaged with grief. “I don’t care who she’s been with. Take me to her. Let me get her out of this place. Save her from this fate.”

Nora froze for a moment, genuine shock in her expression. “You’d still want her, even if she’d been with another?”

“All that matters is that she is safe and can recover. We’d be able to recover.” He took a deep breath. “I didn’t protect her from having to resort to this.”

“You would never make her feel shame for having been here?”

Staring at her for a long moment, his gaze filled with compassion. “Never. She did what she had to do to survive. And I will not shame her by throwing it in her face, not when I am upset or angry. Just as I hope she won’t remind me of how I failed her, when she is disappointed in me.”

Nora shook her head, swiping at the corner of her eye. “You O’Rourkes. I fear I will never understand you.”

“Just tell me where she is.”

“What I can say is that she is no longer here. She has another … protector.”

Oran paled and grabbed onto the back of the chair. “A protector?” He looked around the finely furnished office in a daze. “So soon?”

“Talk to you family, Oran.” Madam Nora motioned for him to leave. “Not all hope is lost.”

Oran stumbled from her office, feeling as if his heart had just been torn from his chest. He thought he knew what that felt like yesterday, but today he understood what true desolation was. The Madam taunted him by saying, Not all hope was lost, but it felt like it was.

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