Chapter Ten
Peter Canton looked out the second-story window of the old house with a curse. He’d had to find another place to stay before the townspeople started talking. He followed Lily and the Simmons woman home the day he had seen them in town.
Scouting around, he felt like he had struck pay dirt when he stumbled upon the old abandoned house. He bought a small kerosene heater and some camping gear and moved in. He hid the stuff in the attic during the day when he was scouting out ways to get to Lily.
So far he had been frustrated. She hardly ever left the ranch house, and when she did, she never went anywhere alone. Usually she was with the Simmons woman, but any other time she had been with one of the men.
He was growing more impatient. He had limited resources and couldn’t afford
