Emma & The Lawman

Chapter 6

Emma begins coming to, her world is spinning. It takes her a minutes to bring into focus the warm hard steel hands moving up and down her arms.

Emma struggles in Beaus' hold to get out, still frightened about what happened earlier.

"Settle down Emma." He tells her as she's trying to get free from him.

She continues to keep struggling till Beau grabs her face and pulls it towards his.

"Now listen little lady, I'm not going to hurt you!" He says as he rubs her cheek slowly with his thumb.

Emma stopped fighting,as her head hits his chest she just listens to his heartbeat, the rumbling of his voice as he talked to her. She closed her eyes, she was finally in safe arms, away from Nathan.

"Alright, Emma we need to get you out of here get you somewhere you will be safe from whoever did this." He said as picked her up in his strong arms and started walking towards the jail house.

When he reached the jail house, he kicks in the door while walking towards the only cell in there as he places her down gently on the cot and sits beside her.  

"Emma? Who done this sweetheart?" he asks in a gentle voice while he tucks some hair behind her ear. Beau could tell that she had been silently crying on their walk to the jail and it tore at his heart and he wanted to know who the fuck had the nerve to hit a woman like Emma.

She just shook her head, crying and rolled away from him. He felt bad for her. He wanted to help he just didn't know how because she wouldn't tell him what had happened.

"You're going to have to talk to me Emma right now or later but you're not leaving this cell till you do, you got me little girl?" Beau said out of his clenched jaw then walked out of the cell and slammed it closed behind him.

"Why won't she tell me what happened to her? What have I done to her for her not to trust that I'll protect her?" Beau thought to himself as he walked outside the jail to calm his nerves. When he walked out the door of the jail he caught a kid walking down the road.

"Hey kid!" Beau yelled to get the boys attention.

The boy looks around to see who called him and finally spots Beau, "Oh Hi-ya Marshall!" The boy said, waving

"Go get Dr. Jackson and tell him to bring his bag." Beau said

"On it!" The boys said as he ran down the road towards the small clinic.

 Beau tries to calm his nerves by lighting a cigarette, he takes a slow long drawl off it and slowly lets it out as he feels himself somewhat relax. Beau waited outside till Dr. Jackson made it to the jail about thirty minutes later.. "Boy said you needed me Marshall? What have you got for me today?" the jolly man asked with a smile

"It's Emma, I don't know what happened or who, because she won't tell me but she in pretty bad shape." Beau said as Dr. Jackson walked up to him.

Dr. Jackson's smile quickly faded as he followed Beau into the jail and back to the one cell they had. He rushed inside when Beau opened the door and stepped back to let the old man enter first.

"Emma, honey what's wrong with you?" the doc said as he pulled at her shoulder. She turned around and sat up on the cot and looked at Dr. Jackson crying still.

You could hear the man's intake of breath as he took in the site of her dirty and tattered, torn dress.

"My god child what in the hell happened to you?" he demanded while opening his black bag.

"I'm fine, really!" Emma said, trying to smile

"I'll be the judge about that young lady!" he said as he began to look her over. She just had some scraps and bumps and some light purplish bruising on her cheek.

  "Well, doc, I was walking from church towards the school and was pulled in along a stable of the livery,there was no witnesses that I can tell and I don't seem to recall the man's face." She said as her eyes looked everywhere but at the doctor or at Beau.

Beau shook his head, "I got a bad feeling she's lying." he tells himself.

The doctor closes his bag after leaving instructions for Emma's care. Beau turns and walks the doctor towards the front door of the jail house.  

Emma keeps hearing Nathan's threat to harm Beau if she tells then he'll come for her and she shudders at the thought. She wanted to tell Beau, but she didn't want anyone to get hurt.

"No one should get hurt because of me." she thought to herself, she wanted to cry when she thought of him or anyone else being hurt by Nathan.

She gets up from the cot and comes out of the cell trying to right herself and her hair so she can leave to head to the hotel. Beau stops her with a stare. "I'll be fine Marshall, I'm just going to head back to the hotel and get cleaned up and rest, I'm sorry I can't be more of a help in finding the person who attacked me." she told him.

But Beau didn't think she was telling him the truth and was protecting someone, maybe it was her lover he thought to himself, none too happy with the idea of another man putting his hands on her.

"I'll walk you to your door then," he says, smiling as he headed to the hat rack for his hat and opened the door for her.

They walk to the hotel in silence. Emma is trying not to fall over her own feet as she reacts to the feel of his hand on her lower back as he guides her to the hotel.

Thoughts of inappropriate behavior run like a train through her mind and the heat between her legs is causing her stomach to do flips.

She loves the feel of his strong hands on her and it's nothing like Nathan with his sickening touch.

"Why am I feeling this way towards this man? Of all the men why now? And why him?" she wonders as they make their way inside the hotel and up the stairs to her floor.

Emma stops at her door and is fishing the key to her room from the clutch on her wrist when she hears a door open. She swings around to look behind her and her mouth flies open. "You.. live there?" She says in surprise and shock.

Beau is standing there with his room door open and tells her, "This is me." giving her a sexy grin.

By all the gods in heaven, why are they turning against me now? putting this man's room right across the hall from my own?

She stands there, just staring.

"I have been living across from him and I've had thoughts of this man at night and now to find out he's just across the hall... I am in big trouble tonight" .

Emma walks inside her room and before she shuts the door, she meets Beau's steel gray eyes and says, "Marshall, thank you."

Beau tips his hat to her as she closes the door.

"Damn it all to fucking hell, this little slip of temptation is just across the damn hall and my mind is racing and my hands are itching for another feel of her soft body," he thinks to himself as he walks to his room and shuts the door behind him.

Beau takes his hat off and throws it on the bed before following it down himself.

"Oh it's going to be a long, hard fucking night." he says, sighing.