Daisy by Leigh Greenwood

Author:Leigh Greenwood
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780843947427
Publisher: Leisure
Published: 1994-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Daisy hadn't expected the sight of the charred remains of her home to affect

her so strongly. She knew the house had burned, but seeing it was a shock.

The charred spot on the desert floor bore no resemblance to the home she

remembered.

"It's almost as if it was never here," she said to Tyler. She couldn't explain

the feeling of loneliness that assailed her. Not only was her family gone,

almost all trace of her life had disappeared. It was almost as if she had never

existed.

"We buried your father next to your mother." Tyler looked over the

charred remains of her home but found nothing worth salvaging. "I wonder

why your father didn't build closer to the river. The soil would have been

better for a garden."

Her mother had asked her father to move several times, but he wouldn't.

For him the difficulty of finding water to irrigate the garden didn't outweigh

the view of the mountains above and the river valley below. Daisy slipped

from the saddle and reluctantly approached the graves. She had been here so

many times before, times when talking to her mother was all that kept her

sane. Her father had never understood. Now he lay here as well. She won-

dered if he would be glad of her visits now.

"I know it's not much, but the ground was frozen."

"It's okay." If she managed to find the money, she would have a nice stone

marker made. Her mother would like that. She would hate having nothing

but her name carved on a piece of board. In a few years, there would be

nothing to show she had lived or died in this place.

Daisy found that unutterably sad.

"Let's go," she said, turning away from the graves. "I imagine the killers

know we've left the cabin by now. I won't feel safe until I'm in

Albuquerque."

"Son of a bitch!" Toby cursed when he slammed through the cabin door.

"There ain't nobody here." The whole left side of his head was badly swollen

from a nasty-looking wound to his cheek.

"Looks like they ain't been gone long," Frank said.

Ed dismounted with painful slowness. He hobbled inside and dropped into

a chair to take his weight off a heavily bandaged leg. "This can't be the

place," he said. "Looks like a woman's been living here. I never seen so

much kitchen stuff in all my life."

"If it's a woman, why do they have bunks?" Toby asked.

Frank threw back the curtain to Daisy's corner. "They got a bed back here,"

he said. "Now why would a man keep a woman and let her sleep in the

comer?"

"Maybe there's two of them and they take turns at her," Toby said with a

lewd snigger.

"You ain't never seen that kind of woman keep a place like this," Ed said.

"You two stop jawing and let me think," Frank ordered.

He didn't understand. Three animals had occupied that shed, but he could

find the tracks of only two leading down the mountain. The cabin sure

looked like a woman lived here regular, but mountain men didn't go to any

trouble to hide it if they were keeping a woman. None of the dried-up pieces

of leather he'd talked to these last few days had said anything about a

woman.

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