The Whippoorwill Trilogy by Sala Sharon

Author:Sala, Sharon [Sala, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781647341831
Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
Published: 2020-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

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It was mid-afternoon when Eulis and Letty got the first glimpse of their destination. It was out in the middle of a wide, flat valley, which, if they hadn’t been so travel-weary, would have made them wonder where the isolated little town had gotten its name.

There was a mountain range far, far to the west, and a large herd of cattle barely visible in the south. The obligatory saloon sat squarely in the middle of town. Letty could read the sign from here.

Griggs Saloon.

It crossed her mind that there might be women working in there who she knew, then discarded the notion. There was no reason to assume they would even cross paths. Letty’s recent conversion to the Lord had automatically moved her to socially acceptable, especially if no one knew her from before.

She looked at Eulis. There was a strange, faraway expression on his face.

“Eulis?”

“What?”

“What are you thinking?” Letty asked.

Eulis looked at her and then sighed. “I reckon I was wonderin’ who it was I was gonna lie to this time.”

Letty frowned. She didn’t know how to deal with Eulis’s conscience.

“There’s no call to look at it like that,” she said.

Eulis shrugged. “Then how do you look at it? I’m gonna go down into that town and pretend I have the legal right to marry two perfectly decent people. Those people will then live the rest of their lives believing they are legally wed, and their children and grandchildren, and all who come after them will have been born from bastards. That’s how I look at it and it’s startin’ to bother me some.”

Letty’s frown deepened. She’d had no idea that Eulis was capable of such deep thinking.

“So, what are you saying? Are you blaming me for getting you into this?”

“No… I don’t know… maybe.”

Letty felt the weight of the world settling on her shoulders. Through sheer terror and no small amount of determination, she’d kept the people in Lizard Flats from finding out that the real preacher they’d been expecting had died in her bed. She’d dragged Eulis out of his normal drunken stupor, cleaned him up and passed him off as the preacher because it had suited her purposes, not his. She’d pushed and prodded him every step of the way, and not once had she thought about what they were doing. It had been all about what she wanted. She’d had a change of heart and quit a life of sin, and she wondered now whether it had been a real change of heart, or from fear and guilt. She couldn’t say she was sorry she was no longer letting men have their way with her body, but she was sorry she’d used Eulis.

“What do you want to do?” she asked.

He glanced at her then looked away.

“I don’t know.”

“Are you sorry you’re not still in Lizard Flats?”

He shook his head vehemently. “No. No, not that. I won’t ever be sorry about that and I got you to thank for helpin’ get me outa’ that.

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