A Promise Worth Remembering (Promises Collection) - Plot & Excerpts
She’d crossed the row of Trespassers Shot on Sight signs, slipped through the wall of Alders, and past a thick blooming blackberry bramble when she spotted an unfamiliar truck. Parked, two men stood to one side of the vehicle tarped with carcasses strapped to the roof. They loaded their rifles. Her palms rolled into fists. She’d seen both men before, however, in town—trappers and hunters who were known to carry the proper depredation permit to kill mountain lions that attacked livestock. But these two were far too blasé about killing animals for profit. She jerked to a halt just as Tucker shoved her behind him, his hand sliding off her arm in slow progression like he needed to feel her there, behind the shadow of his shield. She’d been thankful he’d loaned her his shirt, which covered her to mid-thigh. He still wore an undershirt, the sleeveless kind that left little to the imagination of how much Tucker’s body had matured. Copper crouched at her feet, splitting his shoulder wound wide open, so, again the pink flesh turned crimson.
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