Cowboy's Legacy

Nettie shook her head. “I think he really cared about her. He’s the kind of man who would take her back.”

“Like the husband. Flint said Anvil had said he just wanted his wife back.”

Nettie looked thoughtful as they drove out of town. “Makes you wonder who Jenna really is. Certainly not the woman her husband thought he married. Nor the one Reiner thought he was saving. I hope I get to meet this woman.”

CHAPTER SIX (#u609b1c04-8cd3-507d-a667-9ac14df12f1e)

ANVIL BROUGHT TWO cups over to the table and motioned for the sheriff to have a seat. As Flint pulled up a chair, he saw that the man’s hands were shaking as he put down the cups of coffee. He was reminded that Anvil had said he would take his wife back if she was ever found, no matter what she’d done. He wondered if that was still true. If Jenna was found again.

Or if Jenna would go back to Anvil after everything that had happened between them—including him slapping her.

The farmer pulled up a chair. “Is she...?”

“She’s been living in Wyoming.”

Anvil looked up. “Wyoming?” He didn’t seem that surprised to hear this news. But then, all along, he’d believed that she was alive after taking off to meet some man. Apparently, he’d been right. “Not very far away at all.”

“I don’t have all the facts yet, but my office was contacted by a man who said he’d been living with her since she disappeared from here in March.”

“I see.”

“The thing is, the reason the man contacted me was because Jenna has disappeared again,” Flint said.

Anvil let out a soft breath of air that could have been a laugh. “So you don’t know where she is?”

“No, but I sent a private investigator down there to find out what he can. I’ll know more when he reports in. But under the circumstances, I have a positive ID, so I wanted to let you know.”