Slocum and the Hellfire Harem (9781101613382) by Logan Jake

Author:Logan, Jake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: 2012-11-03T04:00:00+00:00

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He’d grown so tired that by the time he staggered back toward the house, he hardly cared whether the place was overrun with crazy-eyed itinerant preachermen or big-breasted women toting rifles and shotguns and six-shooters. All he wanted was a drink of cool water and a nest in the old hay in a corner of the barn. He’d take his chances with anyone foolish enough to creep around in the dark. Tired or not, he could still squeeze the trigger on his Colt.

He was troubled by the fact that the men seemed to have an endless amount of ammunition. It must have come from that secret stash the women hadn’t been able to break into. He still wanted to get to that camp of theirs—must be one back behind the small ridge they’d been firing from. If he saw that they had carried a decent amount of guns and ammunition, plus food and other gear, he’d know they were committed to this invasion.

If they didn’t have much more than guns and bullets, then they had expected to overrun the women and drag them by the hair back to their farm. Either way, Slocum knew he had to get to their camp; it was just a matter of when. And he knew that answer: It would have to be tomorrow, because he couldn’t go on. It had been one long day, then he’d been shot, then in a gunfight, then in a brawl with a big brute of a man atop a cliff. What next? He could only think of sleep.

He looked toward the house, saw a figure leaning by the back of the house in the moonlight. It looked like Ruth, or maybe one of the twins. He held up his arms. “Hey,” he said. “It’s me . . . Slocum. Just letting you know I’m back.”

The woman turned to him and he saw that he’d been mistaken. It was the mother. She held the heavy shotgun in the crook of her arms and faced him.

“Did Judith make it back?”

“Yep, all my girl chicks are sleeping inside right now. Be nice to have all my children with me. And all of ’em going to California. See how the old bastard would like that.”

He could say nothing, merely nodded. He was too tired to think straight.

The older woman broke his reverie with another question. “What was that shot I heard up yonder, a while ago, likely I heard some shouts, too. You know anything about it?”

“Might,” he said. “Nothing of bearing right now. Ma’am, I am very tired. I will take my leave, and grab a few hours of sleep in the barn. Don’t hesitate to yell and I’ll come running.” As he trudged back to the barn, he thought of the fact that he’d killed another of them. He wished he could be sure that the men wouldn’t try any more barrages tonight. At least until first light. If he were a praying man, he thought, he’d ask for that favor.

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