The Wedding Kiss by Hannah Alexander

Author:Hannah Alexander
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: The Wedding Kiss, Christian, General, Romance, Fiction, Religious
ISBN: 9781609363086
Publisher: Summerside Press
Published: 2011-09-01T05:00:00+00:00

Elam led Moondance from the barn barebacked and unbridled. He went back in for the blanket, saddle, and bridle. He scooped a double helping of oats into the stall trough for Duchess, to keep her mouth occupied so she wouldn’t whinny at the wrong time. He then filled the feed trough outside with oats for the other horses. He and Frey had removed the bridles so the horses could more easily eat and drink without the bits in their mouths.

Elam closed the door and bolted it behind him just in time—Frey stepped out onto the porch, settling his dark, dusty brown hat onto his head. Elam prayed that Duchess wouldn’t raise her head from her feed trough and call out to Susanna, as she’d done a couple of times from the barn.

Frey looked grim as he studied the steps—obviously the bloodstains that had spilled from Susanna’s shoulder. He straightened and looked at Elam then shook his head and made his way across the yard.

“You folks seem like good people.” He opened the gate, glanced back at the house, and shut the gate. “Your wife’s in there watching over her patient like he was her own, and she’s probably got herself convinced I’m the devil, carting an innocent kid off to his death.”

“He is just a kid.”

“He’s older than some of the relatives of Jesse James when they made their first kills, but this whole trip out West is just an effort to combine two chores.” Frey shifted his hat on his head, and as he did so, his gray eyes seemed to glint like gunmetal in the rays of sun that hit them. He braced his boot on the lower board in the fence, looked at Elam, then back out into the corral.

“As I mentioned earlier, Tim Skerit’s been flitting around the edges of that outlaw gang that’s hanging around Eureka Springs these days.”

“I didn’t know there was an outlaw gang in town,” Elam said. “Sheriff Nolan usually keeps an eye out for such types.” But they could be the ones Brute had mentioned.

“They’ve not done anything against the law in your town yet, but they have in others. They’ll be rounded up before they wake up in the morning, and most of them will be tried and convicted of robbery and murder. You’d best stay clear of the Springs tonight.”

“So it’s a fact? He’s running with a gang?” Elam didn’t believe it for a moment. Something about this man irritated him like gravel in his shoe.

Frey stepped over to his chestnut gelding and scratched his ears as the horse chomped on the oats. “It’s a fact. What isn’t a fact is that Skerit’s been seen taking part in any of their misdeeds.”

Elam glanced up at that.

The marshal nodded, giving Elam a tight grin. “This trip’s a warning. I owed his pa a favor from ten years ago, and since I happened to be in the area, I stopped by their place for a visit. This is payback.”

Elam settled the blanket over Moondance’s back then reached for the saddle he’d braced on the fence rail.

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