Infamous Chapter2
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"Honey what is wrong?" Clint grabbed his daughters arm. Amy struggled to regain the breath that was knocked out of her. She had her hand on her chest and took a shuddering breath.
"He..He's the one that kidnapped me" she forced out staring at Ty. Ty grimaced and bit his lip. That was one of the big things that he was not proud of. The Gang had kidnapped Miss. Amy for ransom and got it, all $700 of it. Clint's face went pale you and hen flushed red with anger.
"I told you Sir. I'm not proud of my earlier life and I am different now." Ty said trying to defend himself and his first solid job.
"We will talk about this later get in the dang Buggy and get us home" Clint snapped and Amy clung to her father's side. Ty put the cloth in the back and hopped in. The drive home was long and tense.
Clint stepped out of the Buggy and helped his daughter out who was still as white as a ghost. Ty tied up the horses and turned around waiting to be fired. Clint stared at him and ground out
"Into my office" Ty nodded and stuck his hands in his pockets. He walked into the house and into Clint's office. Clint and Amy followed. Amy looked like calf cornered by wolves. Ty stood to the side of the desk and Amy on the other. Clint sat down at his desk and began
"Ty are you one of the men that kidnapped Amy three years ago?" Ty nodded and said
"Yes I was. I was riding with The River Bend Gang and we kidnapped Amy for ransom. I've told you Sir. That I wish I could take back all those years. I served my jail time and got a pardon from the Governor. I'm never going back to my old ways. I want a regular life now and nothing more. We never harmed your daughter and I am truly sorry "Ty didn't even look at Amy as he spoke. Clint sighed loudly and put his head in his hands. Amy looked over at the man standing facing her father. She remembered three years ago when he drug her off the train. She spent five days living in the outlaw's camp. She hated them and now her captor was her father's employee. He couldn't stay! Father would have to fire him!
"Amy, Ty is one of the best ranchers I got. He is telling the truth, the pardon is right here." Clint held up a paper "I have no dough that Ty is telling the truth about going straight. You two are just going to have to live with it." Amy's face dropped and she forced her gaze to meet Ty's. Ty looked into Amy's sad eyes and felt very bad.
"I'm so sorry Amy. I realize now that I was making the wrong decisions in life. "Ty apologized
"You sure did" Amy snapped and picked up her skirts. She stalked out of the room. Ty knew she had spunk. She had tried to escape them every night. Ty sighed and looked at Clint
"Thank you Sir." Clint nodded and walked out, his head low. Ty walked out of the office and down the one story house. All of a sudden a hand fisted in the front of his shirt and pulled him in an open door. He was slammed into a wall and it knocked he wind out of him. Ty was a large man, who was strong enough to do that? Ty looked into the face of the prefect and angry Amy. Amy's eyes blew sparks and her cheeks were flushed. Ty raised his eyebrows at her and she tightened her grip on his shirt.
"Let's get one thing clear. I was looking forward to coming come and living my old life. You ruined it all!" she spat in his face "I will never forgive you for what you did! I don't care what you tell my father!" Ty was impressed, she sure had a temper. She let go out his shirt, opened the door and shoved him out. Ty stumbled into the hall and almost slammed into the wall. Wow, she sure strong. He thought stronger than last time met her. Ty walked outside and found Garrett. They rode out to fix fences but threw whole time Ty was thinking about Amy, fuming in her room. Her green eyes that threw sparks, her long blonde hair. Ty shook his head and tried to focus on his work, it didn't turn out that way.
Clint sat at his desk looking at the papers in front of him but not reading them. His mind was lost in thought. So Ty was one of the men that kidnapped Amy. Clint bit his lip. Any regular man would fire him on the spot but his cattle ranch was not going along well. He didn't want to tell Amy and worry her but the bank was threatening to close him down. Clint thought that if he could get some good hands that worked cheap he could turn Triple S around and Ty was one of them. Clint sighed and got up from his desk. He walked out into the hall and knocked on Amy's door. Nothing. Clint knocked again and opened the door. Amy wasn't in the room. Then he heard a bang from the kitchen and a curse. He walked into the kitchen and saw Amy holding her foot and bouncing around the kitchen and cursing.
"I don't think those are words a young lady uses." Clint said laughing and walking to her. Amy glared up at him
"I can't believe the condition of this place! I open cabinets and cast-iron comes falling out of mid-air!" she said trying to put weight on her foot. Clint chuckled and hugged her
"I missed your complaining" He said and Amy laughed too.
"Really? I thought you would love it being so quiet around here!" Amy smiled at him
"I'm sorry about Ty Amy. I really am. "Clint said watching her clean up the heavy black skillet that fell on her foot.
"Whatever Pa. He's just one man on a big ranch" Amy looked in the food cabinets. "You want Turkey for dinner?" she asked him
"Anything you want to cook." Clit smiled "We can go back into town tomorrow and get some more food"
"Do we have any extra cloth?" Amy looked out the dusty windows and tried to clean them.
"Yeah we got some today." Clint didn't mention who got them.
"I'll use them for curtains" Amy said and walked over to him "you wanna take a ride after dinner?" she smiled
"Sure pumpkin" Clint kissed her cheek and walked back to his office. It was good to have Amy back. Amy wiped her hands on her apron and began cooking.