Slocum and the Horse Killers by Jake Logan

Author:Jake Logan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

11

The ride back seemed shorter.

Her body still tingling from the encounter at the pool, Miranda’s thoughts came into focus on the facts. Money had been tight since her father died. Mainly, she decided, due to Uncle Abel’s penchant for faro, not because of unpaid bills.

Fiction. All of it. Maybe the answers were still in that safe.

Much as she hated to admit it, Slocum was probably right. Truth was, she wouldn’t put anything past her uncle. She was young when her father died, and no one had ever told her how it happened. Just that he’d fallen from his horse and hit his head. Papa had never regained consciousness.

Again, she asked herself how this could be possible. Her father had been known—and justifiably so—as the toughest bronc rider around. How in the world had Bertha, his trusty old saddle horse, thrown him?

And Uncle Abel had been with him when it happened.

Lately, he had made her skin crawl. Not that he’d done anything out of line. Mostly the sly looks when he thought she wasn’t looking. And remarks that often held a double meaning.

“Penny for your thoughts,” Slocum said, pulling Cougar up next to her. “You been awful quiet on the way back.”

“Just thinking,” she replied as the trail rounded an outcropping of rock. Then she heard a zip, zip, followed immediately by gunshots echoing off the hillsides.

“Back,” Slocum yelled.

They wheeled the horses and ducked behind the rocks.

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