”“I know he will, Eli. I’ll tell him about it when he comes back from the barn,” Doc said.“Eli, let Doc Harrod and Lettie take a look at you... bullet wound,” Miranda said and the whole room turned to look at her, then Eli. No one had spoken of him being shot.“Eli Crow, did you get shot and not tell us when you came home? We’ll all gang up on you and make you hurt more than a bullet,” Rose scolded her brother.“It wasn’t a bad wound. Miranda and Sissy doctored me with some tore up shirts until we. He looked at me curiously and said, "Lordy, look at Mister Scarecrow. You're just a bag o' bones."He pulled off his shirt to reveal his small, compact body. The prominent ropes in his arms were twitching, as if eager to begin punishing me.There was a loud slapping noise as our bare torsos collided. I immediately felt the heat of his body seeping into my own. We spun around like dancers until I felt my feet leave the ground. I was propelled through the air and landed on the grass with a. ‘Is he always this charming?’ ‘Jools, as you are no doubt aware, he can be a right miserable sod!’ ‘Oi! I’m here you know, listening, is that meal ready I’m bloody starving? ‘OMG, his masters voice. Yes master, coming right up, as you command your immenceness.’ Susan stood and bowed low. Julian smacked the cheek of her arse and grinned. Susan stood abruptly grinning. Julian caught the glink in her eye and tried to stand. Dan beat him too it and stood between the two. ‘Enough, stop it both of. I then called Dunbar on my throat mic asking for a report. Even as I did, Jefferson popped up again; this time to the left of his previous position and few yards closer to us.“Down!” I snapped in warning as the shot rang out.There was a cry to the rear of me. Another person had been hit and from the sound of it, it had been a woman. I rolled to my right and I came up looking for the bastard. He wasn’t there anymore.“We need to find him,” Burton growled angrily over at me, rage in his voice,.