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The Gunslinger's Untamed Bride

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“Oh, my gracious.” Mrs. Donnelly’s wide gaze landed on Lily’s skirt. The state of her attire left little doubt that she had indeed been assaulted. Her initial attacker stood beside her, posing as a sheriff.

“Are you all right?” the woman asked.

“Quite well,” Lily assured her. “Thank you. As Sheriff Barns has said, we need to recover the stolen funds.”

“They just want what was owed to them.”

“And we have every intention of distributing the wages, which are now missing.”

“This whole town is waiting on their pay, Emma,” said Juniper. “Everyone will get their wages. But it has to be done properly. We have to get that money back.”

Tears spilled across Emma’s cheeks, twisting the ache in Juniper’s heart. He hated having to press her for information. This family had been through so much heartache in the past few months.

“Did they say where they were headed?”

She nodded, sniffing back more tears.

Juniper knew how much it cost her to implicate her brother.

“A man was with him,” she said. “Calvin called him Chandler.”

“You didn’t recognize him?”

“No. He wasn’t a pleasant fellow. He kept shouting at Calvin and scaring the children.”


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