Quin took the ride at a steady lope, not rushing. The three men guarding the way into El Laberinto would have spotted him by now, and he wanted them to believe he was alone. As he rode, he tried to push away everything Burk had told him. For Burk he felt nothing—no pity, no compassion, no anger. None of it—Burk’s lies, Quin’s shattered sense of himself—mattered now. All that mattered was the hypnotic loping of his horse as she took him closer and closer to the gunmen waiting for him. He felt an eerie peace, as if he were already dead.When he reached the ancient cliff paintings, he slowed Belle to a walk. One gunman had a rifle and was positioned on a rock shelf…The post Chapter 15: The Lair of the Beast appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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