Clan: Season 3: Episode 3 - Calum's Watcher

By Leigh Barker

Season 3, Episode 3. Clan: Calum’s Watcher
The Albino has sent a group of convicts to Moy Hall to kill everybody there in revenge for Calum taking back the stolen herd.

Calum and John race north to intercept the assassins but they know they will be too late, they have too much of a start.

Lady Anne and Magdalene are marked for death, but not until Hangman and Silky have done to them what they have done to so many others, and for which they were going to hang. Until Lord Eustace Forbin picked them and they were free.

Even though they know it is hopeless, Calum and John ride through the night.

But in the darkness there is an unseen helping hand.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leigh Barker
• Release date: Jan 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370577361

Leigh Barker

Leigh was born in Dudley in the middle of England. He has been a merchant seaman, a (useless) electronics salesman, a programmer, and a business analyst. And now he is a full-time writer, but that doesn't make him a bad person.He is presently writing 4 series:Clan, following the adventures of Calum Maclean as he tries to avoid the Bonnie Prince but still protect his beloved Highlands.The Hellfire Legacy Series follows US Marine Master Sergeant Ethan Gill and his team as they take on the jobs too hot for other special forces. They go where they're sent; South America, Middle East, Korea, but their most dangerous missions are on US soil.Volume #1: A Whisper of ArmageddonVolume #2: The Hellfire LegacyVolume #3: The Orpheus DirectiveEden, a three-volume series -Trinity is at war with Lucid, the son of Lucifer, and he will do whatever it takes to win. The Archangel Gabriel has an army but he needs more. He needs heroes, but they are few and far between. Which is why he gets Dylan and co. Not too much luck in Heaven then.Volume #1: Eden's Last HeroVolume #2: WinterwoodVolume #3: Requiem for Eden.Soldiers is set in 1914 and follows John Regret and his 12-man squad on their suicidal mission to find and destroy the German howitzer nicknamed Big Bertha. Find it before it drops it's thousand-pound shells on the allied army retreating across France. A seemingly hopeless mission that just cannot fail.Other occasional series include:Anarchy, the 'completely true' stories of men doing what men do when there's nobody to keep them in check. Create mayhem and behave like monkeys on speed.Coffee Break Reads - each issue has 5 stories short enough to read while taking a break from life. A mix of adventure, love, disaster, and fun. All with one thing in common; for a moment they transport the reader to another world.Episode 1 of each Season is free and can be picked up with other free books at:https://leighwbarker.com/my-library/Just copy the link above and paste it into your browser and you're there...

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Clan

(Season 3)

(Episode 3)

Calum's Watcher

Copyright 2017 Leigh Barker

Published by Leigh Barker at Smashwords

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ISBN: 9781370577361

Calum’s Watcher

Calum let his horse walk and leaned forward to pat its neck. He looked up at John as he came alongside and slowed his mount to a walk. They’d covered twelve miles at a steady trot, and even though their hearts told them to gallop as fast as they could, good sense reminded them that riding was better than walking. Which was where’d they’d be after their horses had died from exhaustion. So they walked for a mile. As much as they could bear.

They were going to be too late, they both knew that. The gallows scum had a half day’s lead on them.

Silky, Bones, and Hangman were in no great hurry; they were away from the Albino and glad of it. These three had earned their names through the execution of their chosen professions. Silky was little and mean and the smoothest pickpocket in the city, and he’d never been caught, right up to the moment he’d got caught. Bones was the opposite of Silky, big, heavily muscled and gentle. Until he was told otherwise, then he broke whatever he was told to break. Hangman was a killer with a very special calling card. His victims took a long time to die, but they were supposed to. That was why he did it. To watch their dance of death while he drank ale and ate bread and cheese.

All three were due to hang, until Lord Eustace Forbin had picked them, and just like that they were pardoned. Now he owned them, but at least they were alive to complain about it.

We gotta kill them all? Silky said. Y’know? Everybody there?

Them was the orders, Hangman said, and looked up from searching his saddlebag for food. You got any bread left?

I ain’t never killed nobody before, Silky said, handing him the end of a stale loaf. Cut some up a bit. He pulled a cut-throat razor from the pocket of his long, tatty coat and flipped it open to show the straight blade. But I ain’t ever topped nobody. He turned to Hangman. What’s it like?

Hangman took a long drink from his water bottle to help with the bread and looked away across the rolling countryside with dreamy eyes. First time you’ll never forget. It’s like you’re God or somethin’ with life yours to take. He looked back at Silky. My first time, I had him standing on the stool, his hands tied and the rope around his neck. His wife runs in, sees it and begs me not to do it. Offers to do anything I want. He grinned to show his missing front tooth. Pretty little thing she was.

And what?

I accepted her offer, of course. Pretty thing like that. Took her every way. With her man standing there with his eyes on us.

You let him go, then?

Hangman sniffed. "Kicked the stool out while we was doing