An Agent for Rosalie by Laura Beers

Author:Laura Beers
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: West
Published: 2019-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

Rosalie jolted upright in bed and reached for the pistol under her pillow.

“It’s all right, Rosie,” Paden’s comforting voice murmured next to her.

Gripping her pistol reassuringly, she saw that Paden was lying in the bed. “What do you think you are doing?” she asked, seriously considering shooting him.

“You were having a nightmare earlier. When I woke you up, you asked me to stay with you.” His eyes were filled with concern. “Do you not recall that?”

A vague memory of her asking him to stay came to her mind. “I do now,” she sighed, placing the pistol on a small table next to the bed. “I am sorry if I kept you up.”

“You have nothing to apologize for.”

A rooster crowed in the distance, alerting them to the early hour. Rosalie brought her knees up to her chest and hugged them tightly. She had been having the same nightmare that had plagued her since her father’s death. When would those memories fade?

Paden turned to his side and propped himself up on his elbow. “Was your dream about your father?”

“It always is,” she confirmed, resting her chin on her knees.

“I wish I’d been there,” Paden said through gritted teeth. “If I hadn’t been out at the Olsen farm investigating who stole a chicken, then…”

Rosalie cut him off. “If you had been there then you would have been killed too.”

“Thanks for the vote of confidence,” he replied dryly.

She tilted her head to look at him. “It was ten against one. Those men shot women and children. If you had engaged them, more people would have died, including yourself.”

There was an abiding sadness in his voice as he said, “I wish I had been there for you.”

“You were,” she rushed to assure him.

He shook his head. “By the time I arrived, I saw men loading the dead into the coffins.”

“You rallied the men and formed a posse,” she reminded him. “You spent a whole week trying to find Bill Garrett and his gang.”

“We failed.” He dropped back down on the bed and stared up at the ceiling. “We never received word that Garrett had escaped from jail. If we had known, then we would have taken precautions.”

“I agree, especially since Bill had threatened to kill my father on multiple occasions.” A brief smile came to her lips. “My father told Garrett to stop breaking the law if he didn’t want the law to come after him.”

“Sheriff Addis was a character,” Paden remarked reflectively. “He commanded respect with his no-nonsense attitude, but he always took the time to play games with the school children.”

A rooster crowed in the distance followed by a man shouting, “Shut up, you stupid bird!”

Rosalie laughed. “I take it that person does not appreciate the early hour.”

“We should discuss our next course of action,” Paden said. “First, we need to speak to the bankers, without giving away that we are agents.”

“I agree.”

Placing his arm behind his head, he asked, “Any ideas on how to do that?”

“We could go open an account at the bank,” she suggested, lowering her knees.

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