Jakob and Jessie, Part 4
Chapter 1 From the minute he’d gotten the Sheriff’s phone call Jakob had known what he had to do. It was like killing a rabid dog or the feral hogs that had threatened his father’s stock. It was either kill Howard Holmes or live their lives in fear—fear that he’d get out of prison and hunt them down to wreak his “revenge.” In the end he’d done what he had to. He had rescued Jessie, his wife of less than a day, from a certain death at the hands of her father. Jakob had carried Jessie, insisting she keep her eyes closed until they were seated in the living room to spare her from the gore of her father’s death. He returned to the bedroom for a tee to cover Jessie’s naked body before phoning …