Faith's Rescue by Angela Lain

Author:Angela Lain [Lain, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-19T16:00:00+00:00

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Faith watched him with hungry eyes. He looked just the same; tall, dark and so very handsome, dressed as ever in dark clothes, with that gun on his hip. It hung there as if part of him. He had told her he was not a gunman, but a cowboy who carried a gun. That distinction mattered to him, but she knew from experience that the gun was far from an ornament.

She should not have shouted at him that way, but seeing him had been such a shock.

Or had it?

Only yesterday she had stood in that clearing and pictured him standing there. He had been so real in her memory.

Now he was here. What fate had led him back here just when she needed him the most? Was he honestly here to see her, or had simple chance led him back this way? Would he rescue her once again? Was there anything he could do to rescue her this time?

“Why are you here, Hawk?”

He gave a small shrug. “I guess I needed to… know.”

“To know what? Stop talking in circles. Tell me!”

“Before we get to that, there are a couple of things you might be interested to know. Howie Capel is dead. He took another girl, he paid. She got home safe.”

Capel! The man who she had feared most while held captive.

“Dead? Did you shoot him?”

Hawk gave another small nod. “Also, Niagret is dead too, the man who threatened Beth.”

“I know, she wrote me. We have exchanged a number of letters, but not recently. I know she has a son, named after you.”

Hawk smiled. “My godson.”

“That’s all good, but it doesn’t tell me why you are here.”

“I wanted to know… how you are getting along.”

“Badly! Everything here has gone wrong. Father has married a shrew of a woman who hates me, treats me like a child, and has now decided she wishes to be rid of me, so she has arranged my marriage.” Faith was well aware she sounded as shrewish as the woman she criticized.

“Arranged? As in you have no choice?”

“None whatever, and I’d never even met the man before yesterday.”

“He’s not… what you want?”

“No, he is not! Far from it. I want to choose who I marry. At least then if it all goes wrong I will only have myself to blame.”

“Ahh, and that was why you were arguing with your… step-mother?”

“Not exactly, she just told me I have to get rid of Juno, which I will not. Of course I argued about the marriage. You can’t expect me to just accept it.” She watched his face, trying to gauge his thoughts, but as usual he revealed little. “Although… I seem to have little choice as things stand.”

“And your father agrees to this?”

“My father allows Mrs. Duncan free rein where house and family are concerned, all he wishes to control is the ranch. I don’t think he cares one way or the other, certainly I can’t seem to catch him alone to speak with him.”

“What does your intended think of it? He is happy with the arrangement?”

“Don’t call him that!” she snapped.

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