Chapter Sixteen
“I’m really surprised that you expected to get away with this.” Sarah shook her head. “Did you really think that we wouldn’t find your secret hideout here? Hiring Soupcan to do your dirty work was your biggest mistake. He was just plain sloppy. The axle on that cart had tool marks on it, and he didn’t even bother to sweep up the metal filings from the floor of the toolshed. In case it matters to you, I didn’t hurt him. After he told me what I needed to know, I gave him his pay and sent him packing.”
It was a bizarre meeting. Everyone was gathered in Lady G’s sitting room, a formal parlor that was as aggressively Victorian as The Bar-S Ranch house was Western. Looking through the window, Morgan could see that they were no longer anywhere near the desert. Towering spruce da
