[Jayneh and Myself!] [Mature Content]

The ride was rather slow, and he had to remember hard where she had mentioned where her house was. He approached the house and dismounted, hitching his horse outside, before rapping his knuckles on the door.

Matthew strolled to the door, pushing back a woman who was clawing sensually at him. Rolling his eyes he swung it open. Raising his brows at the stranger. "Can I help ya'll?"

Jed cleared his throat before he saw someone open the door. Just his presence was enough to make his skin crawl. "Yes...I was wondering if you knew the whereabouts of a certain Annalee?" He asked, digging in his thumbs into his gun belt.

"No, haven't for about two months." Matt muttered before turning and smirking at the woman behind him.

"Well shouldn't you be concerned about her?" jed growled.

Matt simply shrugged before grunting. "I've got other things on my mind." Hemuttered.

"Yeah, many other things." He growled, looking over his shoulder at the woman. His right hand went down towards his gun slowly. "Maybe you should have made sure you loved her before you married her."

"Her father wanted us to marry, and I couldn't pass up an offer on a cute little girl like her." Matthew told him with a coy grin.

"Maybe you did, but beating her up and getting her pregnant doesn't seem like love to me." He spat.

Matthew narrowed his eyes, "I never beat her up... and how do you know all this?" He hissed.

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Jed smiled smugly, knowing something he didn't gave him a grim satisfaction. "She's run away from you, Matthew. She loves me now. She never loved you, and she never will."

Matthew gritted his teeth, "What did she tell you?" He asked him with dark eyes.

((What if Anna was lying? o.o And she was exaggerating it? And CONGRATS MY LOVE! <3))

[[ WHOO! What do you mean by exaggerating? ]]

"She told me you treated her pretty bad. That you used her simply as a toy. She was nothing more than a whore to you!"

((Like she wasn't treated very well but he was never that mean to her. Like she said he was... o.o))

Mike raised a brow, "Pardon? You know how many times she turned me down and made me sleep in the other room. So I did?"

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Jed's voice broke for a moment. "Well she wouldn't lie to me. We've loved eachother for years!"

Matt tilted his head, "Maybe that's WHY she lied to you." He shrugged.

Jed clenched his jaw. It couldn't be true. "You're lying to me!" He said out loud, bunching his hands into fists.

"Yeah, maybe... I was a little harsh on her when she didn't want to be in bed..." Matthew shrugged, "I only forced her a couple times. But I wasn't so mean that she'd have a reason to run away."

Jed was shaking with anger. Drawing his revolver in a flash, he aimed it at the man and pulled the trigger.

Matt's body shuddered before he doubled over and fell to the ground. The woman behind her widened and dropped down beeside him. "What did you do!" She squealed.

As he watched the body slump to the floor, a silent tear fell down Jed's cheek. In one swift motion he placed him gun back in the holster, and he turned, ignoring the woman's comment, and mounted up, heading back at a canter.

Annalee had cleaned the whole house while Jed was away. Worrying every moment.

Jed hitched the mare outside the house, taking a deep breath, wiping the wetness from his face. He walked in the door with all the courage he could muster, a harsh look on his face.

Anna blinked several times and looked up at Jed, "Wh - what's wrong?" She asked stepping toward him hurridly. "Did you catch anything?"

"I didn't go hunting." He said angrily, walking to his room and slinging his coat up on a hook. "I went to Matthew's house."