Jessica by Margaret Tanner

Author:Margaret Tanner
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-11-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Three weeks passed. Jessica had become so jittery she jumped at the slightest sound. Fortunately for her, on their second night on the trail, Jake had sustained a painful injury to his male region. It rendered him incapable. He couldn’t even ride his horse. It had cost a girl her life, though. Before he helped himself to a woman he always removed his spurs. After he had forced himself on this girl, she had snatched up one of his spurs and stabbed him with it. He had rolled around screaming and cursing. Once he had recovered sufficiently he beat her up then shot her dead.

Finally, after twenty-three days on the trail they stopped at an isolated cabin and were left to the administrations of a flashy looking middle-aged woman. She forced them to wash and change into revealing gowns and lace trimmed pantaloons.

Jessica didn’t know how her breasts managed to stay inside the low-cut bodice. The woman was a retired Madame, who came to the cabin each time Jake brought in a shipment of women to dress them, and apply face make-up so they would be more attractive for the men who were going to buy their services. Her mouth dried up thinking about what she would have to endure if she couldn’t escape the clutches of these fiends.

She couldn’t remember exactly what Jake had done to her that night at Scarlett’s place, except it hurt. Didn’t want to remember if truth be known. She now knew what men would expect of her after seeing Jake in action before he was injured, and it terrified her.

Once they were seated on benches running along either side of the wagon, she watched in shock as their legs were chained to iron rings on the floor, making it impossible for them to jump out once they arrived in Lawson. Their bound wrists were cunningly concealed behind a black and red embroidered cloth that was wrapped around them, with a large gold bow in the middle, as if they were a giant parcel.

Bitterness overwhelmed her. Fear ate at her like a ravenous dog. It was becoming harder to believe she would ever escape. To think of being betrayed by someone she had thought of as a friend, was soul destroying.

Dressed in a garish, revealing gown, her face caked with make-up she looked like a whore, and after what Jake had done to her, she was one. If she had been able to throw herself under the wheels of the wagon she would have.

~*~

After the bank robbers left the Lawson Bank, Ethan pushed up against the wall and after much grunting and a few muffled curses, managed to get to his feet. Jessica tried to do the same, and even if his hands hadn’t still been tied, he wouldn’t have helped her. He owed her nothing after what she had done. The quicker he got away from this town and her the better he would like it.

He stumbled to the door of the bank and shouldered it open.

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