Wild Winds by Janelle Taylor

Author:Janelle Taylor [Janelle Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781420127706
Publisher: Kensington

Following their midday meal and while sipping tea, Maggie wondered where Hawk had gone after excusing himself from the table. They had reached Benson earlier on the Southern & Pacific Railroad and would catch the Southeastern train to Fairbank in less than two hours, then ride their horses the remaining three miles into Tombstone to arrive there before dusk.

As she waited, Maggie’s thoughts were in a turmoil. She wanted and needed to believe in Ben, but something within her prevented her from doing so. Maybe, she reasoned, it was a combination of intuition and years of experience that birthed distrust. Her mother had told her that Ben was highly skilled with weapons, had faced down a gunslinger, and wouldn’t “harm innocent people.” Yet those facts could explain how Ben might have shot the teller and why the man hadn’t been slain. Considering Ben’s impulsive and daring visit to her hotel room after his escape, maybe he had a hazardous wild streak. And maybe a cocky one made him think he couldn’t get caught and wasn’t taking any risk of going to prison. Now that she knew the truth about the trouble between Frank and Newl, she was tempted to believe that Frank hadn’t tried to frame Ben with false testimony and had instead acted out of sheer and sadistic joy at having an opportunity to punish Newl through his son. Yet there were several dubious points concerning that Prescott crime that baffled her …

Please, God, guide me toward the right path.

When Hawk returned, Maggie noticed his broad grin. “What’s going on? I can tell something is from that animated look.”

Hawk took a seat next to hers and leaned in her direction to whisper, “Hear me out. We’re heading after one of the slyest ruffians alive in Pete Barber; and Slim Jones isn’t a fool, either. If Barber does any checking on us, we can’t allow him to find any holes in our story or he’ll try to take us down. If we’re going to claim to be a just-married couple who’s visiting Tombstone to see if that’s where we want to settle, we might need proof.”

“I don’t understand. What kind of proof?”

I’m going to rope you in, woman, and never release you. “A marriage certificate. I talked with a local preacher and he’s waiting to perform the ceremony.” He saw her blue eyes widen in astonishment. “Don’t worry about getting stuck with me forever,” he said with a chuckle, “I have good friends in a judge and a lawyer, so they can remedy the situation later.”

“You mean, actually get married?” She watched him nod. “Then have our union dissolved after we finish our work?”

Hawk chuckled. “Unless we decide we make a great team and want to stay partners. I promise you I’ll behave as the perfect gentleman my parents tried to rear, and I’ll bed down on the floor in our room; we’ll have to share one to be convincing. Think about it for a minute before you answer, but that piece of paper could save our lives, and get you that big story.

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