Passion's Wicked Torment by Melissa Hepburne

Author:Melissa Hepburne [Hepburne, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melissa Hepburne
Published: 2015-06-10T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

Converting an old building into the sort of casino saloon she had imagined was no easy task. It took a while, and in the process, living as she did, Kristin found herself becoming quite a frontier woman. Her physical appearance changed. Her outlook changed. Almost everything about her changed.

It was a full-time job once she decided to do it. And it provided her with an insight into her character that she had never had before. Ever since she had grown out of childhood, she had never really wanted to do anything. She knew it sounded silly, thinking about it, but it was true. Until now, there had never really been any activity or goal she’d gone after with a passion.

Now she decided she wanted to become an entrepreneur and earn a lot of money, and this she did go after with a passion. Part of the reason was that she liked the idea of becoming a successful businesswoman. Another part, which was darker and grimmer, was that she intended to someday get even with Ironman, to make him pay for Chad’s death. She did not know how she would do this yet, but she did know that when the time came, it would take a lot of money—money that could be used to bribe people, to hire cutthroats or to do whatever turned out to be necessary.

Now that Kristin had found a cause worthy of committing herself to, she discovered that she was very skillful in figuring out what needed to be done and then doing it extremely efficiently. First, a building had to be secured. It was not necessary to buy one. The revitalized ghost town had an abundance of buildings that were simply up for grabs. No one used them, and whoever had owned them decades ago had left them when the last boom had ended. Kristin acquired a long hall simply by laying claim to it.

It needed fixing up, of course. And not just in a slapdash manner. Kristin wanted it to be a truly nice, comfortable place to be. She had McShane hire two men to work as carpenters, and under his direction the refurbishing began to take shape. Equipment had to be brought in from neighboring towns. Fortunately, Yukon was not as isolated as it had been in former days. It only took a few days’ transport by horse team, or a day by truck and then another day or two by horses to bring almost anything she needed. She ordered and received chairs, tables, giant mirrors, even a roulette wheel and table, which were the most difficult to obtain.

McShane financed her purchases, grumbling only a little. She understood him well enough to know that his grumbling was only for appearance’s sake, to show that he was not accustomed to doing a woman’s bidding. The fact was, he recognized that her idea was a sound one, and he fully expected a healthy return on his investment.

The townspeople began taking an interest in the project as it was shaping in, and soon they began dropping around to visit in a friendly, inquisitive way.

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