The Town’s Most Feared Gunslinger Risked His Life to Save a New Waitress From Outlaws — Until a Secret From Twelve Years Ago Revealed That Her Missing Father and His Missing Brother Had Vanished on the Same Night
Chapter 8
Crowe came at midnight.
Sixteen men.
Horses.
Rifles.
Torches.
Red Hollow had never seen anything like it.
Buildings caught fire.
People fled into the streets.
The church bell rang continuously.
Elias returned to town with Clara and Samuel.
He fought through the streets.
One man.
Then another.
Then another.
But there were too many.
Crowe stood outside the restaurant.
The place where Clara had first met Elias.
He poured gasoline over the wooden walls.
“Everything ends where it began.”
He lit a match.
The restaurant caught fire.
Clara screamed.
“My mother’s inside!”
Elias ran.
He disappeared into the flames.
Seconds passed.
Then the roof collapsed.
Clara screamed his name.
“Elias!”
No answer.
Crowe smiled.
“Now you understand.”
Clara turned toward him.
Her eyes changed.
She picked up a fallen revolver.
Pointed it at Crowe.
He laughed.
“You don’t have the courage.”
Clara pulled the hammer back.
“I learned from the best.”
Crowe’s smile disappeared.
Before she could fire, a shot came from the darkness.
Crowe fell.
Clara stared.
Elias stood behind him.
Burned.
Bleeding.
Alive.
He had saved her mother.
Crowe was gone.
But Clara saw something in Elias’s hand.
A piece of paper.
The final piece of the ledger.
