followed by the sound of footsteps racing back to the roadway.
“Looks like Pearson learned his lesson about chasing varmints in the woods.” The deeper voice chuckled.
“He has other lessons to learn,” Abram said, his tone sharp and without the joviality of the other man’s. “Tell him to leave me alone.”
“I’ll tell him,” the man answered. “Although I doubt it’ll do any good.”
The voices became fainter, but even though the danger subsided, Miriam continued to tremble. Serpent had been too close.
Abram would come to get her, she felt sure, when the men had left the area. She and Abram would return to the farmhouse where she would remain until the roadblock was lifted.
But would Serpent continue to search for her? And if he found her, what would happen then?
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