The Horseman's Bride by Elizabeth Lane

Author:Elizabeth Lane
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE

JASON TANNER DENBY

For the Cold-blooded Murder of Mr. Hollis Rumford Contact Sheriff John B. Clayton, Springfield, Missouri

$1,000 REWARD

There were more details in the fine print at the bottom of the page, but Clara was too shaken to read them.

McCabe had laid a hand on her shoulder, his palm too warm, his grip too possessive. “What’s the matter?” he asked. “Is that him—the man you saw?”

Clara shook her head vehemently. “No. The man on the road was…older. And darker, more like…like a Gypsy. I’m just feeling a bit nauseous, that’s all. Maybe some fresh air—”

Rising, she pushed her way past the startled McCabe, fled out the front door and swung it shut behind her. She heard the click of the door opening again as she hurried up the sidewalk. Clara knew McCabe was watching her. She could feel his eyes following her every move as she crossed the busy street, reached the parked auto, switched on the starter and fumbled with the crank.

Had he believed her lie about the man on the road? McCabe might be a weasel, but he wasn’t stupid. She could only hope he’d been paying more attention to her than to the face on the poster. At the very least she should warn Tanner not to go into town.

After cranking the Model T’s engine to life, she climbed into the driver’s seat, wove her way through the Main Street traffic and turned onto the road that led back to the ranch. Only as she drove did the gravity of what she’d learned begin to sink in. Tanner—she couldn’t think of him by any other name—had admitted that he was a wanted man. And he’d told her that his crime had been a necessary one. But cold-blooded murder? How could she have feelings for someone who’d committed such an awful act? She’d promised to keep his secret. But now that she knew what he’d done, how could she justify protecting Tanner from the law?

Emotions churning, Clara drove faster and faster, flying over bumps and ruts, screeching around the familiar bends at more than forty miles an hour. The big cottonwoods that overhung the road blurred in her side vision. The wind clawed at her curls.

Where should she go with the truth? To Tanner? To her mother? To her grandmother?

What if she’d alerted Lyle McCabe to Tanner’s presence? Heaven save her, what had she done?

Lost in frenetic thought, she didn’t see the horse-drawn farm wagon, lumbering around the curve toward her, until it was too late to stop. The huge draft horses screamed and reared as she swerved under their very hooves. The auto lurched through the barrow pit and slammed into a tree. Pitched forward, Clara struck her head on something hard. There was a flash of crimson; then the world shattered into blackness.

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