Westin Legacy

“Hello, Echo,” Cody said as he got off the vehicle, produced an electric lantern and held it aloft. “I was hoping to see you again before you left, but not like this. Are you okay?”

It was like the Wyoming question of the day. “Fine,” she said. “It’s your brother who’s about to drop.”

Cody directed the light and looked at Adam closely. He whistled. “Man, you look like hell.”

“I feel like hell.”

“You want to carry that bullet back to the ranch or do you want me to dig it out here?”

“Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman here says the bullet isn’t in there.”

Echo rolled her eyes.

“You were lucky you weren’t up here alone when that happened,” Cody said.

Adam’s fingers grazed Echo’s arm. “I know.” His attention once again on Cody, he added, “Sorry I had to wake you.”

“You didn’t wake me. The two oldest Garvey brothers showed up at the house about an hour and a half ago, drunker than skunks. They swear Open Sky owes them two hundred bucks in Lucas’s back wages.”

“They were both there?”

“In the flesh.”

“Damn.”

“Are you sorry you missed them?” Cody asked with what Echo suspected was a rare flash of a smile.

“No, I just had my heart set on one or both of those losers being behind the thefts and this shooting. If they were at the ranch yelling at you, they weren’t out here shooting at us.”

“Back to square one.”

“So, despite the fact Lucas did his best to kill Analise and Pierce, his brothers want money.”

“That’s right. I’m about ready to pay them out of my own pocket and get rid of them for good.”

“I’ll go half with you.”

“Deal. You’d better get back to the ranch. I’ll take Solar Flare up to the cave and keep guard. I’ll come join the mowing as soon as Mike relieves me in the morning.”

“I can run a tractor,” Adam said.

“Maybe.”

During the ensuing pause, Echo had to keep her mouth clamped shut. It was second nature to offer help, but she’d never even ridden in a tractor; on the other hand she had mastered her stepfather’s truck—how hard could a tractor be?

However, that wasn’t the plan. Tomorrow she was figuring out how to get to the airport and return home just to pack her bags and fly to New York where she had a month to find an apartment and learn to navigate the city before she started work. Time to let go of the past, the mountains and Adam Westin.

“I’m calling the university in the morning,” Adam finally said. “If they can start processing the cave this summer, they can figure out how to guard it.”

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