Clan Season 3: Episode 6 - Calum's Road

By Leigh Barker

Clan: Season 3, Episode 6. Calum’s Road
Calum and Big John are outnumbered 7 to 1 but they are still going to try and save the kidnapped women.

And even if they make it through the day, the Mackenzie brothers are waiting for them at Fort George and the Mackenzie brothers kill for money. And they're good at it, very, very good at it.

Even as they walk onto the road to face the convicts, York's cousin, Beatrice, is arriving in Edinburgh. And she has plans for Scotland and for herself.

The Highlands haven't stopped bleeding, the new Viceroy will see to that.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leigh Barker
• Release date: Sep 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370697182

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 6)

Calum's Road

Copyright 2017 Leigh Barker

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Calum’s Road

Calum and John rode up on either side of Adriana in the shelter of a stand of windblown trees. John leaned forward and rested his elbows on his saddle pommel to watch the wagon and outriders moving slowly along the rutted road towards Inverness.

There’s a lot of them, he said quietly. Did I say that there’s a lot of them back there? He nodded vaguely in the direction they’d come.

Aye, Calum said, ya did that. He was silent for a while watching the men and horses. And you were right then and you’re right now. There’s a lot of them.

Adriana sat up in her saddle, reached over and touched Calum’s arm. We could hide in the bushes, like now, and shoot them as they go past.

Calum tried not to look at John, but couldn’t help it. John rolled his eyes and looked away.

They’d never see us, Adriana continued, warming to the idea. We could shoot a few, then run away and wait for them further along the road. Then shoot some more.

I don’t know yon men, Calum said, pointing down the hill.

You don’t have to be formally introduced to shoot them.

They’ve done me no wrong. So far.

Adriana glared at him. What about the women? They’re kidnapping the women. Doesn’t that count? Or only if they were men?

Calum smiled and tried again not to look at John. Same result.

What if they don’t know they’re kidnapping the women? Calum said.

How can they not know? Adriana said, her eyes squinting. Perhaps they think they’re taking them to church for a nice sermon.

Calum shook his head. I doubt that. There are churches closer than Inverness.

That’s not what I meant and you know it.

He did.

What Calum’s saying, John said, before there was violence, is it’s nay right to skulk in the bushes and shoot people without warning.

Adriana turned her squint on him. Then warn them, if it makes you feel better. She clamped her jaw and spoke through clenched teeth. It’s a good plan.

Aye, Calum said, it is that. If I was wanting to murder them.

Murder them? She looked quickly down at the road and lowered her voice. How can it be murder if you’re saving those poor women?

That one there, Calum said, pointing at the road. The young one. He’s got a wife and a bairn waiting for him at home. Shall I shoot him first?

She followed his finger. The young man looked to be barely twenty. How do you know he has a wife and b—child?

I don’t.

Then—

But I don’t know he hasna either.

That’s no argument.

I’m nay arguing. Just saying what could be.

What difference does it make? They’ve taken those women, and he’s with them.

Aye, it looks that way.

How else could it look?

Calum watched her flashing eyes for a moment, lost in them, wanting to do as she asked, to please her. But murder?

"You shot those men