Staring Down the Devil (A Lou Prophet Western #5) (29 page)

“You
are a man of honor, my friend.”

Prophet clapped his hand on the Cossack’s back. “You have no
idea how honorable I am, Serge. No idea.”

Sergei
smiled. “Well, shall we kick up a little dust and horse piss,
Lou?”

“Uh,
that’s horse
sweat,
Serge, and I’m ready if you are.”

The
Cossack nodded and climbed atop the stage. A few minutes later, he
shook the reins over the horses’ backs, and the stage creaked into
the street, heading south where it would pick up the eastern trail
to New Mexico territory. The countess stuck her head out the
window, smiling at Prophet.

He
gigged Mean up to the stage and took the countess’s extended
hand.

“Later, Lou?” the delectable Russian royal
asked with a devilish grin.

“Oh,
yeah,” Prophet said, giving her a
wink and
squeezing her hand. “You can count on that.”

Inside
the stage, Marya was watching her older sister curiously.
“Later?”

Natasha smiled and cocked an eyebrow at her younger sibling.
“Just never you mind,
ma cherie.
You’re not the only one in the family with a sense
of adventure.”

Smiling to herself, the countess shuttled her gaze back out
the window. She watched the big bounty hunter in worn denims and
buckskin tunic jog his hammer headed horse out front of the
stage.

As
Prophet rode, he threw his head back, singing, “Jeff Davis built a
wagon and on it put a name. Beauregard was driver, and Secession
was the name…”

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