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“Oh, Lily where are you? I know you’re alone.”
What did she do? Her husbands said not to go outside and yet here was this outlaw who she knew would harm her if she did anything. How could she get rid of him?
“I’m going to burn down the house if you don’t come outside.”
“Like hell,” she said, running downstairs. At least today, they had allowed her to wear clothing. If she’d been nude, it would have taken her time to get dressed.
When she reached downstairs, she picked up her rifle and then shouted through the broken pane.
“You throw a torch and my bullet will land in your chest.”
He grinned. “I knew you were here. Saw the Texas Rangers ride off without you. You’re alone. We could have some fun while they’re gone.”
“Over my dead body,” she mumbled to herself.
He disappeared and when he returned, he had Garza’s horse. The poor animal had been through so much. What was he doing with the mare? The horse was saddled and ready to ride.
“Come out or I’m going to shoot this mare.”
There was no way she would allow him to harm one of their animals.
“No,” she screamed. “Leave that horse alone unless you want to die.”
Hysterical, maniac laughter came from him and then he rode over to the gate where the cattle were being held, opened it and began to fire his weapon over the cattle.
Without thinking she ran outside, off the porch into the yard, intent on stopping him from letting all her cattle escape.
“Stop,” she screamed.
“Oh, so now you want to come out to play.”
She raised her rifle and a bullet knocked the weapon from her hand. Stunned, she watched as his horse galloped toward her. Raising her skirts, she ran, but before she could reach the door, he jumped off his horse and grabbed her.
“Oh no, you’re not going anywhere without me. We’re going to take a little ride. Kind of like me and Garza took a ride. Only he didn’t come back, did he?”
Fear spiraled through her. Calvin killed Garza. He was the reason her foreman was dead.
“He was my friend,” she cried.
“Get on his horse,” he commanded.
“No, I’m not leaving,” she said.
“Fine, I’ll shoot you right here.” He aimed his gun at her and she knew she had no choice but do as he said. She wasn’t ready to die. Her life with her husbands was ahead of her.
“Do you want your husband to find your body in the yard?”
With a sigh, she stepped into the stirrup of Garza’s horse.
“All right, I’m going with you, but you better realize that when my husband and Seth return, you’ll be a dead man.”
“The only way to get the Sweet B is to kill the three of you and I’m just the man for the job.”
Fear engulfed her and she turned her face away from Calvin. The man was crazy. Now it was up to her to stay alive long enough for Will and Seth to find her.
Unable to stop herself, she glanced back at the house one last time as he tied her hands and took the reins and climbed on his horse.
Her heart broke as she gazed at the place she had grown up and loved all her life. Would she ever see it again? Would she ever see her husbands again?
