...she found herself jerked from her saddle, falling through space. She landed with a breath-crushing thud across Cash's knee. Cash applied the wallops with a heavy hand while Lash kicked and screamed, trying to free herself of this unladylike position. "This one is for yesterday...and the welt on my butt. This one is for the cat claws you dug into me awhile ago. And..." with an extra-hard slap on her upturned bottom, he added, "this one is for pulling your gun on me." Then he released her and let her tumble in an ungraceful heap onto the dust of the ground. "That's for just now " Getting...

The bay lost her footing and come down on both knees, nearly ousting Leith forward over her head. She came back up on all fours, let out a horrendous squeal and started bucking all over again. Leith took a continuously torturous ride. His body flipped back and forth like a rag doll as the mare took another turn buck-jumping around the corral. His back felt like every vertebra in his backbone had come disassembled. His arms felt like they's been yanked from his body, and his head pounded like a stampede of buffalo were traveling through. Leith felt his senses slipping away. As if the energy...

With a heaven-bound plunge, the cinch belt broke and Chad fell in a heap to the ground, barely missing the flying back hooves of the black. He fell hard, knocking the wind from him, and lay motionless in a state of semi-consciousness, unaware of the danger that lay ahead. Leith came down off the fence, running as fast as he could to the aid of his friend, for he had seen the intentions of the enraged horse. Rid of both rider and saddle, the stallion had made a round of the corral, still hunching his back and squealing his anger as he turned and headed straight for the fallen cowboy. Reaching...