Paper Widow
What made it worse was the fact that the woman’s family clearly had no plans on paying the ransom, which left them with the dilemma of what to do with her.
Had he been a kinder, gentler sort of fellow, he would have put her on a stagecoach headed back east, but that was not his style. He was a fair man, but he was a man who’d led a rough and hardened life. He dealt with rough and tough ranch hands and, since the death of his wife ten years earlier, the only women in his life were the whores in Waurika. In fact, he brought one of them to the ranch to service him and his men so they could focus on ranching instead of losing time running to Waurika every time they got an itch. Peggy was a go
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