The snake writhed and hissed as Hunter lifted it from the pallet. For a moment he held it aloft. Then he looked at Loretta. After what seemed an eternity, he pulled his knife, beheaded the rattler, an...
Over the next few weeks, the Comanches attacked with a vengeance. News came that the mercenaries, en route to attack another village, were all killed. Tales of Hunter filtered to the Masters farm, som...
It will be well. My people will accept. You are one with them now, the wife of a warrior. In time, you will want to be beside me. Your fear will leave. You will see. Until then, this Comanche will wai...
Go into the house, Aunt Rachel, Loretta called. Why? What is it?I’m not sure. He comes in anger.You come with me, then!Loretta swallowed an upsurge of fear. One Indian was taller on horseback than all...
He wasn’t sure when it had happened or how, but the small woman beside him was no longer his captive; he had become hers.
She and Hunter were enemies; that she understood. He hated her. She understood that even better. But deadly enemy or not, hated or not, Loretta never would have laughed at him if their roles had been...
Seeing that he was about to leave, Loretta worked one arm loose to touch his shoulder as he stepped around them. Their eyes locked. Pausing midstride, he touched his hand to her cheek. Once again Lore...
If you flee, this Comanche will follow you. Anyone who tries to keep you from me will die. Think long and hard on this. I paid a fine bride price. You are my woman. What is mine, I keep.You wouldn’t!...
You are my woman. We are one, forever with no horizon.
She was a slightly built woman, narrow of hip. He was not a small man.
Many Horses was putting the finishing touches on a bow he had been making when Hunter entered the tepee. Setting the weapon aside, he fastened his wizened old eyes on his eldest son and pursed his cri...
Make me a story.Hunter, I don’t have a stitch of clothes on, she squeaked.One of his dark eyebrows flicked upward. You must have clothes to make stories?
Loretta was stuffing her belongings into her satchel when Hunter stepped into the lodge. He stood in the shadows a moment, watching her. The firelight fell across her, shimmering in her golden hair, f...
Loretta turned her face against his chest, inhaling the scent of his skin, loving the blend of leather and smoke and oil that she had once found so abhorrent. When had he become so important to her?
This Comanche cannot change his face.And I can’t change mine.
Please, Tom whispered. There’s other gals you can steal. Don’t take this one. Let her go home to her family. Breaking off, he licked his lips. She ain’t done you no harm.After a long while, Hunter ret...
Perhaps we have acted wrongly, sending you to fetch her. Perhaps it was meant for her to come of her own free will.Hunter swallowed back an argument. Though he didn’t believe his little blue-eyes woul...
Hunter’s already low spirits plummeted. It was a sad state of affairs when an untried boy had more luck with women than a grown man.
Hunter’s name drifted to him on the wind, the call barely discernible yet shrill, like the whisper of a lost soul searching for solace. He reined his stallion to a halt, bracing himself against the so...
I think I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, Molly mine. And when I look at you, that’s all I’m ever going to see, the woman I love. It doesn’t matter if you’re perfect. To me, you will b...
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