Chapter 19
Most of the men stayed up late, sitting by the campfire, telling stories, talking guns. Mac sat with them and listened. No one challenged him or questioned him again. The smart ones were wary of him, he thought. The dumb ones were resentful. Hopefully that would hold them at bay for the few days they were together. He’d hate to have to beat the s**t out of one of them to prove something.
Wouldn’t be the first time he’d done that. Once he would have been eager to do it. Might even have sought it out. He thought about the man who had questioned him. He could have used that, he realized. Could have turned it into a physical thing. Taken him down. He’d done it two years ago in El Paso chasing Howard Parker’s past.
And if he’d done it here, no one would challenge him again. He had
