Uriah Moon 1 by Gary Wayne

Author:Gary Wayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: supernatural, epublishing, cowboys, westerns, joe lansdale, piccadilly publishing, iron eyes, wild west fiction, southwest usa, alpha male character
Publisher: Piccadilly

Chapter Seven

THE DESERT SKY dominated the surrounding pastureland as it fringed the sandy wastes. Where there had once been four cattle spreads dotted around Apache Springs, now there were just two remaining. Two cattle ranches after the savage killings that the devilish Morgan Bray had orchestrated. Bray had vainly attempted to purchase his rival’s herds and land but when each of the three had rejected his attempts, he decided that there was only one thing to do. That was why Bray had hired the ruthless Leroy and Cooper to do what they were good at.

The last time they had filled their pockets with Bray’s blood money, they had managed to kill two of his fellow ranchers and an untold number of their cowhands. Now the arrogant Bray wanted the last of his rivals removed from existence. He wanted Ken Major dead and that was why he had wired for Leroy and Cooper to return to Apache Springs.

The job had to be completed.

Like an ancient Mongol tyrant surveying his empire, Morgan Bray stood in the bay window of his ranch house and surveyed the surrounding land that spread out from the solid structure. A massive barn filled with numerous horses stood beside a long single story building where Bray’s various henchman and cowboys resided.

Yet even though his was the largest cattle ranch in the vicinity of Apache Springs, it was not enough for the large Bray. As with everything else in his life, Bray was not satisfied.

The Double K spread still existed and that was a thorn in the side of the devilish man. Bray had to possess everything and even then he would find no rest. For the greed which burned inside him like a grumbling volcano ready to erupt at any moment would never subside.

His appetite could never be satisfied like that of a rational man. His hunger grew and grew as his advancing years began to quicken their pace, toward the inevitable. It was as though he was desperate to win a race that only existed in his twisted mind.

Morgan Bray sighed heavily like a caged mountain lion as his mind shuffled the cards inside his skull. He clapped his hands together in applause as though he were an audience to his own activity.

Bray turned his ample girth away from the window and walked to a silver cigar case perched atop a short legged table beside a long couch. He sat and pulled one of the cigars from the case and bit off its tip. He spat the small tobacco remnant at the large fire place where it vanished into its roaring flames.

The infamous rancher dragged a match across the surface of the table and raised its flickering flame to the end of the cigar. He puffed like an old locomotive and then tossed the spent match at the burning logs in the fire grate.

The cigar smoke encircled his head like a halo.

His plans fermented in his thoughts like rancid poison as he once again worked out how his hired killers could achieve their goal and kill the one man standing in his way.

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