Beyond The Silver Moon – May McGoldrick

“That is the one thing that I can’t tell you.” “Why?” “Two reasons, mainly,” he replied. Caleb’s patience was worn about as thin as a demon’s promise. “I’m waiting.” “First, once you travel out through the pass here, the land is wild and uncharted. I don’t think I could give you good directions to find them.” “Ten years, Preacher. I reckon you can.”

The minister hesitated, looking away evasively. But when he spoke again, he held Caleb’s gaze. “Second, I’m a man of God. These fellows—and a few other outfits that have taken up residence out beyond the Devil’s Claw—they trust me. If I betray that trust, my mission out there is finished. So you can beat me or kill me, pilgrim, but I’ll never give that up.”

1kitap1.com/en Chapter Nineteen Sheila opened her eyes with a start, listening intently for the sound that had awakened her. The distant creak of a floorboard. She waited, gripping the arms of the reading chair, holding her breath, waiting to see if it repeated itself. There was nothing. It was only a dream. She’d been having a nightmare.

In it, outlaws had broken in and were rummaging through the house downstairs. Desperate men, here to rob and murder. And worse. Suspended on that frightening edge of the dreamworld, Sheila was too paralyzed to move, afraid even to breathe. She strained to hear the sound again. The silence was broken only by the scratch of a branch against the window.

The oil lamp at her elbow flickered, and monstrous shadows loomed on the wall. She couldn’t look away from the wavering, threatening figures. She couldn’t even blink for fear that they could actually be some horrible intruder who had invaded this house, this room. From the windows, the moon spilled its cold, blue light, illuminating carpet and bed.

The figures were just shadows. She stole a glance at the corner next to her chair. Her father’s shotgun sat at the ready where she’d left it. Even though this was not New York City, she was still a woman alone in an unfamiliar place.

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Caleb Marlowe stretched his shoulders and watched the embers of the fire throw flickering shadows on the new cabin walls. Outside, a muffled sound drew his attention, and Caleb focused on the door at the same time Bear lifted his great head. The thick, golden fur on the neck of the dog rose, and the low growl told Caleb that his own instincts were not wrong.

In an instant, both man and dog were on their feet. Caleb signaled for the big, yellow animal to stay and reached for his Winchester ’73. The .44-caliber rifle was leaning against the new pine boards he’d nailed up not two hours before. He glanced once around the rough cabin—the first real place that had belonged to him in longer than he cared to remember.

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