Sunset Embrace
“From years of guerrilla fighting and being a fugitive he had developed a sixth sense about any intrusive presence. It failed him completely that morning. He was still sleeping soundly when the wagonmaster cleared his throat loudly.Ross opened his eyes to see Hal Grayson standing just inside the wagon's opening. He was staring at the floor, nervously rotating the brim of his hat between his fingers.Ross's whipcord reactions took over. He leaped from the pallet, slapping his right thigh, reaching... for something that wasn't there, and balancing on the balls of his feet in an attitude of attack.Graysons eyes opened as wide as his mouth in astonishment. He had never seen a man move so quickly. He held both hands up in surrender. "I'm . . . sorry ... I ... kn ... knocked," he stuttered.Lydia scrambled to the side of the wagon, bringing a startled and fussing Lee with her. Her eyes were wide with incomprehension, her hair a swirl of wild disarray around her head."Do your duties extend to entering someone's wagon uninvited?" Ross demanded of the obviously appalled Grayson."No, they don't—""Except when he's about to evict the party."The smug voice belonged to Leona Watkins, whose beady accusatory eyes had been level with the floor of the wagon as she stood on the ground below.MoreLess
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