Untethered by Marcia Lynn McClure

Author:Marcia Lynn McClure [McClure, Marcia Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Romance, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780985280789
Publisher: Distractions Ink
Published: 2012-06-15T07:15:26+00:00

Lowering his voice so that the girls couldn’t hear him, he nodded to Heck to gather the men. Once they all stood close enough to hear, he began, “She’s their leader. We get her restrained a bit, get her thinkin’ that I’m gonna cut her a deal with Jacques if she helps us get the others there…well, it makes our trip a whole lot easier, boys.”

Heck glanced around Heath to Cricket. “She does look like hell though. What’s she gonna look like when we get there?”

Heath smiled and chuckled a bit. “Cooperative, my boys. Cooperative and fresh and pretty as a June bride.”

“How you gonna do that when you’re beatin’ on her?” Patterson asked.

“I didn’t beat on her,” Heath explained. “I kissed her…made her feel desirable and beautiful.”

Patterson looked around Heath then. “I still think she looks like hell.”

“Well, maybe she does now,” Heath countered. “But you wait. She’ll warm up to me, and then she’ll be as pretty as the summer days are long.” Heath frowned, reached out, and tugged at Patterson’s disgusting beard. He’d seen stray dogs that looked cleaner—and smelled better. “Listen here. Who do you think those girls are gonna trust? You and this flea-ridden beard? Or me…all cleaned up like a mama’s boy for Sunday school? Get rid of this rat’s nest, and them girls will take to you more.”

Heath’s attention fell to something else then. Taking hold of Patterson’s arm, he studied the silver and turquoise bracelet he wore—the bracelet he knew Hudson Oliver had given to Marie King. After all, Hudson had bragged to nearly everybody in town about it only a couple of days previous.

“And what’s this?” Heath asked, pointing to the bracelet. “It looks like somethin’ some little girl’s daddy gave to her.”

“I got it off that one over there,” Patterson admitted, pointing around Heath.

Heath turned, pretending to look from one girl to the other. “Which one?” he asked.

“That taller one with the dark hair and blue eyes,” Patterson confirmed.

Heath looked back to Patterson. “Well then, you give it back to her.”

“What?” Patterson exclaimed with indignation. “It’s worth a lot of coin!”

Heath quirked one eyebrow. “More than that girl’s gonna sell for in New Orleans?”

Patterson frowned. “No.”

“That’s right,” Heath said. “So you give that girl back her bracelet, shave off this ratty beard…and those girls will start lookin’ at you a whole lot differently than they have up until now.”

Heck smiled—chuckled as full understanding overtook him. “You’re gonna charm them all the way to New Orleans, ain’t you?” he asked.

Heath smiled and nodded. “Now you’re catchin’ on. When it comes to women, a man gets a lot more cooperation if he feeds them sweet butter and honey instead of horse manure and thistles. Ain’t that right?”

All the men understood then—or thought they did. As they smiled and laughed, triumphantly patting one another on the back, Heath exhaled a very slight sigh of relief. These outlaws really were as stupid as they looked—and that meant the girls had a chance of survival.

“Oh,

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