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indulge himself again. She would take his mind off Trey for a while, and the prospect appealed to him.
    “Let’s go upstairs,” she invited.
    “I’d like that.”
    Fred groped her generous curves as they left the table and headed to the privacy of her room. He was going to make sure she earned her pay.
    And Sindy did.
    Sober, Fred was not the most elegant of customers, and drunk, he was even worse. Most of the time Sindy enjoyed her work, but men like Fred were rough and hard to please. Business was slow tonight, so she had to make do with whomever she could get—and right now that was Fred.
    Sindy suffered Fred’s pawing touch as he quickly stripped away her clothing as soon as they reached the privacy of her room. When she was naked, Fred undressed and then wasted no time tossing her on the bed and taking his pleasure of her. Only when he’d finally collapsed on top of her did she breathe a sigh of relief.
    Fred rolled off Sindy, smiling drunkenly. “You’re good, darling. Real good.”
    “Thanks,” she said, hoping to sound coy. “You sure were fast tonight.”
    “I needed it—things are going bad for me right now.” He told her what had happened.
    “Did you really put a rattler in his bunk?” She was shocked, even though she knew she shouldn’t have been. These cowboys were a rough and rowdy lot, and Fred was worse than most of them.
    “I sure did.”
    She shuddered.
    “I’m going to get even with Jack Stockton. You just wait and see,” he vowed in a deadly tone.
    “But how? What are you going to do? You owe Trey a lot of money, and you know how he is about getting paid back.”
    “I’ll find a way. Don’t you worry about that.”
    “Any hope of getting your job back?”
    “Hell, no, and I wouldn’t work for Jack again anyway. I hate the bastard.”
    Sindy rolled over on her stomach and lifted herself up on her elbows to stare down at him. “You know the Lazy S real well. Does Stockton keep a lot of cash on hand? You could break into the house and rob him.”
    Fred smiled at the thought of finding a way to get money out of Jack. He could pay off Trey and then leave town with his pockets full. “I like the way you think, woman, but Jack doesn’t keep a lot of cash around. He’s too smart for that.”
    “Then what does he care about?”
    “The ranch, mostly, and his daughter.” At the thought of Randi, Fred’s expression changed. “Now, that might be something. . . .”
    “What?”
    “His daughter, Randi. Since his wife died a few years ago, she’s all he’s got left.”
    Sindy was suddenly becoming worried about what Fred might do. She didn’t really know Randi Stockton, but she had seen the young woman around town every now and then. Sindy didn’t like the thought that Fred might hurt her somehow. It was one thing to steal money, quite another to harm an innocent girl.
    “It wouldn’t be smart to mess with his family,” Sindy cautioned him.
    “What do you know about being smart?” Fred sneered, ignoring her completely. He quickly got up and started to dress. She’d given him a good idea, and he knew what he was going to do. All he had to figure out was how to pull it off.
    Sindy was insulted. “At least I’m smart enough to know better than to take on Jack Stockton.”
    “You just said I should rob him!”
    “That’s only money. You’re talking family now. You’d better be careful, Fred.”
    “Don’t worry. I will be.” He finished buttoning his shirt and took some money out of his pants pocket. “You keep your mouth shut about what we just talked about. You hear me?”
    “I hear you.”
    Satisfied that he’d scared her enough to keep her quiet, he tossed the cash he owed her on the nightstand and left the room. He had some serious planning to do.

Chapter Seven
    Hawk went to work as a regular ranch hand. The other men told him about the rustling and showed him where some of the missing cattle had been run off. Hawk looked the area over, but found nothing. Too