Chapter 22

James POV

It was over. Beecham was dead. His crimes were numerous and now he would have to face his maker and pay the price for his sins. The crazy part, though, wasn’t that he pulled a gun. I think we all expected it, that’s why Uncle Samuel, Elijah, Paul, Walt and I all had our gun belts that day. Nope, the crazy part was that Walt was my great uncle. Once we made it back to the ranch, we all decided to sit in the house. Elijah, Paul and Bo carried a few chairs from the bunkhouse so everyone had a seat. Walt, I mean, Uncle Walt explained that he had a brother who was about fifteen years older. His parents tried to have more children between the two boys but his mother had miscarried five times. They decided after Walt was born that they weren’t going to try to have anymore children. Each pregnancy was harder and harder on my great grandmother. When Uncle Walt was four, his older brother, Peter, married his sweetheart, Melanie. About a year later, my Pa was b