“I have two pairs,” he said and removed his pants then laid them on the couch.
He was down to his underwear.
“Some bad men came to Helena,” he said. “They harassed my little sister, got into a fight with my brother, and said bad things about my mother. I was young. Instead of walking away, I got into a fight with them. We pretty much destroyed the inside of the saloon. They tossed me into the street and my father said he was going to have me arrested for destruction of property. That’s when Anthony found me. Bloodied and lying in the dirt. He helped me get away. Later, I learned one of the men died. Don’t know if it was because of the fight or something else.”
This was the reason he didn’t want to return to Helena. He feared being thrown in jail by his own father for a stupid fight defending his siblings. At least she learned he had siblings.
She reached out and squeezed his hand.
“I don’t want to go back to Helena,” he said. “I don’t want to go to jail.”
“But we’re going,” Anthony said. “It’s time you faced your past and put it behind you.”
Wesley’s eyes flashed with anger as he stared at Anthony. “And be locked up? No, I’m perfectly happy staying here.”
Now she understood the conflict between the two men and the need to go to Helena.
“It’s your choice, Wesley,” she said. “I’ll go with Anthony to Helena. We’ll bring back the bull.”
They both turned and stared at her like she was crazy.
“You can’t control a bull,” Wesley said. “And for that matter, neither can Anthony.”
“We’ll do our best,” Pearl said, not wanting to force him to front his past. That, he had to do on his own.
“What about you? You lost,” Anthony said. “What don’t we know about you? How did you learn to play poker?”
She sighed. “My father gambled. He taught me how to play and I did very well for a while. But when you lose, it can be costly.”
The two men stared at her.
“You played in a gambling hall?”
“You’ll have to win again, to learn the answer to that question,” she said, grinning.
They played two more hands and both men were now completely nude.
“I grow weary of this game,” Anthony said. “I’ve lost all my clothes and so has Wesley.”
She smiled at them. “Then maybe it’s time we went to bed. After all, you’re naked and I can get that way real fast.”
Wesley stood. “Let’s go.”
Anthony followed her into the bedroom. “You’ve been a saucy wench all night. I think you’re going be punished.”
“One more butt plug,” Wesley said. “One more and we’ll both take you.”
She grinned and raised her shift. She wore no bloomers and the two men stared at her.
“Damn, every time I look at those tits of yours, I grow hard,” Anthony said.
“Well, don’t just look at them, come touch them,” she said, going over to the bed and crawling up on it. “Come touch me everywhere.”
“You don’t have to ask me twice,” Wesley said and he was on the bed beside her.
CHAPTER14
Wesley watched as Anthony hitched the wagon. Pearl and he were going to Helena, and he refused to go. No one was demanding that he go, but he felt obligated.