Texas Promise by Peggy McKenzie EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Peggy McKenzie
- Language: English
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Prologue
Summer 1886
Sixteen-year-old Lucas Armstrong can’t believe his eyes. There…in the
back of his neighbor’s buckboard wagon, was his father. Or rather…his
father’s body. Someone had shot him through the heart.
His mother sobbed over her husband’s lifeless body while begging for
answers. “What happened, Harvey? What on earth could have happened?
James was just riding to town to get some nails to shoe the mules. Who could
have done this?” his mother sobbed. “Why would someone do this? James
didn’t have an enemy in the world.”
Their neighbor, Mr. Edwards, shook his head in denial. “I don’t know,
Emmaline. I was heading into town to get some supplies myself and I seen a
riderless horse standing at the top of the hill. When I got to the top, I seen a
man lying in the road. And then I seen…it was James, and he was already…”
Lucas stood motionless beside his mother wanting to reach out and touch
his pa, hoping they were mistaking. Hoping—praying—he was still alive. But
the longer he stared at the motionless body and the dark red stain covering
the bright blue of his father’s clean shirt he’d put on just this morning, he
knew there was no hope.
“Who could have done this? Why would someone want to kill my sweet
James? He didn’t have an enemy in this world. How could something like
this happen?” He heard the devastation in his mother’s voice. He wanted to
comfort her, but he was as broken as she was so he stood silent. The three of
them stood in shock for some time before his mother’s voice pulled him from
his numbing disbelief. “I suppose we should do something. We should let the
marshal know what happened. And I need to get…James into town and make
arrangements for him. Mr. Edwards, would you be so kind and drive me into
town?”
“Of course, Emmaline. Anything you need.”
“Lucas, why don’t you go saddle your horse while I go get our things.”
He saw her glance over at his pa’s body in the wagon. “I’ll get your father a
clean shirt.”
He knew his mother’s heart was as broken as his, and he didn’t want to
cause her more trouble, but it was as if his body was no longer his to control.
His body refused to move. It felt detached. Devastated. Dead. Like his pa.
He stood and stared at the tarp partially covering his pa’s lifeless body.
This can’t be real, he told himself even though he was staring at the awful
truth himself.
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