Chapter 31
His captain loved him. Steve loved him. Sharps could have sent the gray stallion dancing across the valley. Instead he kept the pace sedate as they rode to the path that led up out of their valley so McCloud’s horse wouldn’t dump him. Then they dismounted and began the climb to the plateau.
He hugged the words to him. Oh, he wasn’t dumb enough to think what he had with Steve would last much longer. Sharps had seen how protective Steve had been, and he’d known his captain was willing to put himself between the danger McCloud represented and Sharps, but Sharps just couldn’t allow that, no more than he would have allowed the bastard to harm a hair on Steve’s head. But Steve was going to start wondering how Sharps could so casually kill a man.
“Steve?”
“Yeah?”
“Would you mind i
