Total pages in book: 55
Estimated words: 51765 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 259(@200wpm)___ 207(@250wpm)___ 173(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 51765 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 259(@200wpm)___ 207(@250wpm)___ 173(@300wpm)
It only took one look to bring her back to her fucking senses. “Get up and get dressed.”
“Where’re we going?”
“To get married. Close your mouth babe and get that ass moving.”
“What do you mean to get married? I don’t have any of my stuff here, Travis come back here.”
“We’re getting married in five minutes, you wanna do it like that fine by me, but it might be hard on the priest.”
I went to my bags where I had the ring I’d bought her, while she rushed around getting dressed and mumbling under her breath.
***
The ceremony was brief and to the point. My new cousin in law was there as well as Melissa, Kyle and Law. It wasn’t exactly the wedding I’d wanted to give my woman, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
I sent her off with the girls when it was over and done with, and us men went in search of the rest of the crew. It was time to get shit moving.
***
LAW
The sun was fast approaching its zenith and night would be on us before you know it. It gets dark real early in these parts this time of year.
“Okay, the scouts came back from their last recon, Davis called in reinforcements, unknowns. I don’t really give a fuck, one asshole’s as good as another, and if they want to stick their necks in my shit I have no problem offing their asses.
Now all of you know where you’re supposed to be right? He’s thinking of hitting us after midnight but we’d have been there and back long before that.
I don’t have to tell any of you what this shit means to my family and me. This is the first time in almost three years that I would be getting this close to that snake; he’s always in hiding and surrounded by men.
This might be the last chance I have at him, so if anyone fucks this up there’s going to be hell to pay.”
I looked around at the men who had gathered in the meeting room. Each of them had a grievance of their own, either against Davis or the asshole sheriff.
They wanted this as much as I did, but they all knew my complaint was the gravest. Where some of them might have lost land and property, I had lost my fucking blood.
“One last thing, who do we have staying behind with the women and children?” suddenly the thought of leaving Dana Sue here alone without me to look after her didn’t feel so good.
That’s the kind of shit I’d been trying to avoid. For the past three years I had no one but myself to look out for. Kyle could handle himself I’d made fucking sure of that shit.
But what the fuck was I supposed to do with a wife? I can’t go into battle worrying about her.
“It was hard getting volunteers for that so we went ahead and chose some of the guys that we could afford to spare.”
“Make sure they know what the fuck they’re doing, I don’t want any casualties on our end. They’re not supposed to get this far anyway. The guys started on the perimeter Kyle?”
“Yeah they’re in position, Cole is in charge of that. He’s pissed that he’s not going to be in on the action, but he understands that being here is important too. I told him he was protecting the boss’s wife which was almost just as important.”
The ass grinned at me after saying that and I only had to glare around the table once to get the snickering to stop.
“Now let’s go over this shit one last time. I’m going to be up on the ridge above the Davis place with my night scope.
Brand, Clay, I know you guys aren’t exactly on board with the bloodshed but this is the only way to do this. We’ve tried going the legal route and that didn’t work I’ll understand if you two wanna sit this one out.”
“Don’t be an ass Law, we’ve made peace with this shit a long time ago.” Clay folded his arms and leaned back in his chair, while Brand glared and went back to checking his piece.
“Okay then, say your goodbyes and let’s be out.” I went in search of her to let her know that I was leaving, which I kind of resented just a tad bit.
I don’t like the idea of answering to anyone and I guess it showed when I finally caught up with her, because she tried lecturing my ass about my attitude.
“Lawton you should try to be nicer to me, this is no way to start a marriage.” The fuck!
“Dana Sue, how many times do I have to tell you? This is not a real marriage, after tonight I might be able to give you your freedom and then you can go on with your life.”