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I’m back with my travelling wild west show story, Masked Hearts.

I’m jumping ahead a ways because I will be moving on from Masked Hearts soon. Roy and Minnie have grown closer, and Minnie has even allowed herself to get to know the Cheyenne. The more she lets go of her past, the more it returns to haunt her.

Knowing what Rawlins has in store for her, she has asked Roy for one kindness before she’s sold to a whorehouse. Before Roy lets himself sleep with her, he has a confession to make about his unintentional (and forced) role in her, and his own, past. Minnie is shocked at first, but then:

“I don’t hate you. I have tried to blame you, but I cannot. You were no more an adult than I was. You can’t help what they did to you.”

“But you were right. I am why your family…”

She pressed her fingers to his lips, “The Army is why my family is gone. You didn’t kill my father, my brothers, or rape my mother.”

 

*Tiny bit of creative editing was used to get the 8

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Minnie Woodward lives a lie. After barely surviving the Bear River Massacre she’s lived in the white world of her guardian Mister Rawlins, her life debt keeping her tied there. The last thing she needs is Roy’s attempts to gain her favor. Her fate’s sealed. She’s never believed in hope, and not even Roy can make her start.

Roy Ornum saves Minnie every night in the traveling Wild West show. The job he took to break his gambling habit brought him a new addiction – her. He knows she doesn’t want to be rescued, but maybe he does. She’s the key to a past he lost, one he wants to find again.

As the two grow closer old wounds are reopened and their burgeoning trust is shattered. When lives hang in the balance of their choices they’ll need to work together. Otherwise everything will be lost before hope can be found.

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