Chapter 24. Walking Path

The evening sun cast long shadows on the ground. The slanting rays of the setting sun gave a warm orange tinge to the sky. Ruth leads the way out of the log cabin as they both made their way to the horse. The man’s dead body was still lying beside his horse.

“We need to get rid of that corpse,” Scott said as he glanced at Ruth. He doesn’t want to be seeing the man that died in his hands. He feels guilty about what had happened.

“We shouldn’t be worried about that. We only have a horse here, how do we ride?”

“We can share… There’s no harm in that.”

Ruth grinned as she hid her face. That’s what she wanted. Apart from saving Scott when he was unconscious, she wondered if she would have another chance to let her body so close to Scott’s.

After getting rid of the corpse, she made her way back to the horse where Scott has been waiting. “It will be a long ride. We should get going.”

“How about we stop for food? I am famishing.”

“We will make a stop at the