Interlude
Epilog to Wagon
Train… sort of.
By JudyL
September 3,
2014
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Looking
back at the past few weeks, Buck had to agree with the others. Women were a
distraction. Look at the trouble he, Ezra and Josiah had gotten into with
Alice. And he wouldn’t even bring up Charlotte in front of Vin.
Even Chris had been distracted by the thing with Mary and what’s his face. And
poor JD, he was still worrying over how to tell Casey about his feelings.
No,
it just wasn’t worth it. They all could have died on that wagon train. Blown to bits while their heads were being turned by the lovely
ladies. Buck shook his head. They were too great a distraction and it
was time he got his head back in the game.
The
seven of them had a town to protect and he couldn’t risk the danger his dalliances
might put his friends in. A quick roll in the hay would not be worth losing a
friend to a bullet because he wasn’t there to watch his back.
Buck
took a deep breath and resolved to give up wo… Well, now.
Who was that lovely lady stepping off the stage? Hmmm, no
wedding ring and no hovering Beau. There is a situation ripe for the
picking.
Buck
smoothed his mustache and straightened his hat then sauntered his best saunter
across to greet the newest addition to Four Corners. After all, how could you call something so beautiful a distraction,
more of a diversion, an interlude perhaps…
“Well,
hello there, darlin’” Buck said charmingly, “you are
a breath of fresh air in this dusty town…”
Across
the street, Vin slapped a dollar into Ezra’s
outstretched hand.
The
end
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