The Farrow Gang robs banks with great success, but when Evan Langer is allowed to join, he unsettles things. Young and suffering the recent loss of his outlaw older brother, Evan is in need not only of new partners in crime, but friendship and solace.<br><br>Both Wade Farrow and Roy Fitch, gang leaders and sexual partners, take note of Evan, but it’s Roy who orchestrates time alone, where he finds Evan an eager partner. As the gang continues their robbing, Roy finds himself falling deeply for Evan while in turn resisting Wade. Tensions build between the men, and there seems no solution in sight, until the law steps in.

Gunned Down

We stable the horses, then get rooms at a hotel, doubling up, as is the custom. Wade says nothing, just takes one of the keys and starts up the stairs, leaving me caught between him and Evan. Harry and Leland, being the married men, room together, leaving me to take up with Wade and leave Evan to Dewey, who I know will get after him. This is what Wade likely expects, and I find Evan wide-eyed at such a prospect.


“You go in with Wade,” I tell Dewey. “Evan can room with me.”


Dewey, who is not a bad-looking man, but has rotten teeth that give him a smell, looks uncomfortable at the prospect of bedding down with Wade. I can’t tell if he’s thinking to get up to something or fearing to get hell beat out of him if he tries. “Okay, Roy,” he says and follows Wade upstairs.


“Let’s get a drink,” I tell Evan once we’ve tossed bedrolls and saddlebags into the room.


Chapter 17