Her morning was full of last-minute demands from her stepsisters, and her afternoon was spent in the kitchen. She had so much to do that she barely had the time to mourn her dress, and the lost chance it represented. Eunice’s pasta salad was cooling, and Ella was plucking the chickens when Maisie...
He worried that they weren’t going to have enough food…but then, he always worried about that. It was a hold-over from Sing Sing, when there hadn’t been enough food. At least here there were no responsibilities, beyond hunkering down and making sure Zelle’s unexplained fever didn’t increase. &nbs...
He’d punched the most notorious gunslinger in Texas. Punched him… when what Hank had wanted to do was pull out the Smith and Wesson in the back of his belt and shoot the son-of-a-bitch in the face, for daring to touch Red like that. There’d been a moment there, when Lobo h...
The sky was gray and threatened rain, but that just meant that there was finally a bit of a breeze. Tilting his head back against the rough wood, he closed his eyes and enjoyed the feel of the fresh air against his cheeks. This place wasn’t so bad after all, aside from the ungodly heat. He’d been...
I don’t want to move!” Arabella Mayor sighed, and resisted the urge to swat her son’s backside. “I know, my love, but needs must. And please be more respectful.” There’d been a time, not so long ago, that her gentle censure would have resulted in a ...
The boat floated downriver slowly, without any help or direction from him, while he lost himself completely in her arms. In fact, they actually bumped into the dock at Beckett… which was good, because in the state he was in, he would’ve happily let them drift on down to the Sound if it meant hold...