The Wildes of the West 1_The Daughters of Half Breed Haven_Old west fiction of action adventure, romance & western family drama by A. M. Van Dorn

Author:A. M. Van Dorn [Dorn, A. M. Van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Cedar Ledge Publishing
Published: 2017-11-16T23:00:00+00:00

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Cassandra spurted out of the tunnel and urged her horse to catch up with Wendell’s up the ledge road. He turned his horse away every time she got close, avoiding her. Finally, inching close enough, Cassandra leaped at him, knocking him off with both grunting as the pair tumbled towards the edge of the road. Wendell rolled over too much, slanting down the cliff but escaped death at the last moment with a wild grab. Now he swung like a pendulum merely hanging by a single hand.

“Pull me up! Dammit pull me up!” he screamed.

Cassandra took her time to dust her hands before glaring down at him. “So, you can live to wage war against the Dodge family another day?” she taunted.

“No contract is worth dying for!” he yelled, gradually losing his grip.

“You didn’t feel that way when that brute you call your wife was shooting arrows in our direction!” Cassandra spat.

“Name a price!”

Wendell was near whimpering now and would have gone down the cliff had Cassandra not quickly gripped his wrist and yanked him up.

“Not for sale,” Cassandra hissed at him. “I’m only doing this because my pop is a circuit judge with a lot of friends on the bench. When you get sentenced, assuming they don’t hang you for attempted murder, a few words from him and you will be doing hard labor for a long time over in Claymore prison. I’ll get my satisfaction when I’m sitting in that court room, listening to the verdict.”

“You’re not satisfied with what you did to my wife?”

Was the man mourning already? Cassandra gave him a hard scowl as he crouched on his ass, looking sober like a man who had seen it all. As if in response to his question, the stagecoach roared out of the tunnel and up the hill.

“She might live. I kind of hope she does so she can get the same medicine the law is going to serve up on you!” Cassandra fumed.

“Look at that sun,” she told him. “Still high enough in the sky. Looks like the Dodges will be running stages for years to come, and one more thing: where did you learn to handle a gun?”

Wendell, still looking sober, stared at the gun just before Cassandra snatched it from his belt.

“Never used one in my life,” he almost sounded embarrassed and Cassie pounced on the revelation.

“That figures. You pay others to do your dirty work for you, I see. I saw you bumbling around with this thing before,” she chuckled as she examined the gun. “Seems you really don’t know much about weapons … this is a single action Colt Paterson. You have to re-cock it every time it’s fired. The gun must have already been cocked when you took your shot at me. I may have misjudged your intelligence, after all. First thing we are going to do is march down that road and get my six-guns back and then round up one those horses.”

She wasn’t making a suggestion. Cassandra cocked the single action and pointed the gun at his head.

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