Beth didn’t notice him, or was pointedly ignoring him. Was it her? Oh god she knows and she’s going to tell Danni. ‘Oh shit oh fuck oh god oh no...’ he thought. Beth slurped a bit of the purple frothy drink. Mike forced himself to calm down. Do you want some of these or not, sweetie?”Sorry, yeah. You sure you’re ok? Uh…yeah sure, just… bad dreams again.”Yeah, I know, we established that earlier,” she said. She felt a twinge of sympathy for her younger brother. He was obviously horny, a blind. Neither one of us had brought a rifle, so we were forced to make do with our pistols. Mary had her .32 and I had my .44-40s and my .22. We climbed about halfway up the hill and hid behind some large trees.The bandits came thundering into the arroyo behind us and piled off their horses. Both Mary and I were scared nearly shitless, but for different reasons: she was worried about me, and I was worried about her. The enemy started up the hill, and the way they talked to each other, it was a. “MMMMM you are a very creative dirty boy aren't you?”She stretched and rolled onto her back breaking our 'kiss'. Are you trying to earn brownie points?” I smiled at her and winked” Well, I AM a brown noser mistress. Literally.”I kissed and caressed her leg. “Such a smart mouth on you” She laughed. “When is lunch? I'm famished” “It is ready now, may I help you dress so I can bring you to the table? It is a beautiful day out so I thought we would have lunch outside.” She agreed. I. "Good riddance. I can tell you've got Casey all bumfuzzled about women and we are just the two to straighten him out."When Carl and I got to Mitchell's place it was easy to see that he'd known what he was doing when his sawmill was working. He had a three bedroom house made from his produce and a couple of nice out buildings too. People skills weren't high on his list though."Howdy Carl, and before you ask again, no, I ain't been able to get my saw fixed," he said."That's all you know you.