Santiago's Son (Laramie #3)

U.S. Marshal Kian Scott was proud of the job he was doing, and he was very proud that he was the son of Santiago. He had been adopted by Santiago when his mother died during childbirth. Santiago had adopted Kian and Kara and raised them as his own. He taught them how to survive in the west. Kian learned how to track, shoot, use a knife, spear, bow and arrow, fight men much bigger than he was, and live off the land. When he went to training school to become a marshal, he did so well when they took them all to spend a week living off the land that he ended up teaching the rest of the trainees how to survive.

He didn’t get to see as much of Santiago and his sister as he would like to traveling all over the west tracking the felons he was sent to find, but he did stop in whenever he was near the town of Laramie where they both lived. Today he was after the notorious Hobbs crew. He had stopped high on a hill overlooking where they had stopped a stagecoach to take the railroad payroll off their hands. Kian had other ideas. There were five of them surrounding the stagecoach…they never left any witnesses to give testify against them. Kian took aim… without another thought he shot one…two of the bandits and they fell without them even knowing where he was hidden. They looked around and tried to find out where he could be hiding. One of them grabbed a woman from the coach to use as a hostage and keep from getting shot…but the man was taller than the screaming woman. Kian took aim again. He aimed for the head and squeezed the trigger. The man went down but when he did, his blood and brains went all over the unlucky woman. The last two remaining Hobbs brothers threw down their guns. They weren’t happy about it, but at least they were alive. They wanted to see who in the hell was shooting at them! And they sure hoped he’d shut up the screaming woman who was going ballistic at getting blood and brains all over her face and hair! Kian had no idea of who or what he was riding into!