The DeVine Devils by Jeremy Spillman

Author:Jeremy Spillman [Spillman, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Freetown Books

“The heat’s getting thick here, Audie. Maybe it’s time we pack up and move on down the road,” Shane said as he was throwing a knife up in the air. The blade point stuck in the floor, and he pulled it out to repeat the process.

It was about nine in the morning on a Thursday, and they were sitting in Audie’s room.

“I’m all for it, but this kind of trouble will follow us. We have to take care of Siringo before we leave. Everything else will settle but not that.”

“I know this is my fault. I . . . I lost it on that drifter. I don’t know what came over me. He was all over Lomasi and I just lost it,” Shane confessed.

“I know, brother. I know. My demons hit me like that, too. I know that . . . yearning. It’s more powerful than me. I can hold it off for a while. Sometimes. But when a man deserves it . . .” Audie looked out the window of the room he had let. The room felt too familiar. He had done very little to make it feel like his own, but still he knew it by heart now. And knowing it made him want to leave it.

“Are we evil men, Audie?”

Audie took a deep breath and let the question soak into his soul for a while before answering. Shane knew he was mulling his answer over before giving it.

“Yes.”

No one spoke for a couple of minutes. Then Audie turned to face his brother.

“Yes, we are bad men,” Audie said. “But we fight men more evil than ourselves. We fight for something other than ourselves.”

“Father would have wanted us to be another kind of man,” Shane reckoned.

“And if Father weren’t murdered in cold blood, we would have been. I loved him enough to follow . . . I would have been a man of the cloth, too,” Audie admitted. He turned his face back toward the window out of fear that he might cry in front of his brother. The thought of his father rattled his heart.

Shane thought of Lozen in this moment. He felt her lips pull away from his in his mind. He didn’t know why.

Audie broke the silence. “We’ve got to kill Siringo. Soon.”

“Yes, but we have to make him try to kill us first. This one has to be done out in the open.”

“He’s got to be worried about Welks disappearing. Maybe we just feed that worry a bit.”

“Yeah. He’ll come running,” Shane agreed.

Audie stared at the paper and quill sitting on a small table in his room.

“I think I know how to get his ass hairs up.”

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