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“Get off me you oaf,” Rose cried loudly as she pulled at his ared to break free and quickly raced for the wall

“Get down!” Barnaby yelled at her, trying to take aiain

At the sound of Barnaby’s voice, every survival instinct Rose never knew she possessed suddenly clicked so, she lifted one of the small stones off the top of the wall next to her and threw it at Chadwick’s chest It was heavy enough toafter her Rose then picked up another stone and threw that at Chadwick as well

“Do that again,” Chadwick snarled, rubbing his sore chest

“Alright,” Rose replied, and did just that

Barnaby shen Rose didn’t appear to have heard hian to talk to the

“You witch,” Chadwick snarled “Get over here”

“Go to Hell,” Rose snapped

To show him how determined she was not to comply with his demands Rose picked up another stone and threw it at hiround at the ers searched for another rock and caering She began to back aarily

Enraged, Chadwick vaulted over the wall as though it wasn’t there Rose’s eyes widened as she found hiant contempt

“Rose, run!” Barnaby shouted

Lifting her skirts, Rose did just that Rather than leave the area though, she spun toward the horse which had jogged nervously toward the far corner of the field away frounfire

Chadwick tried to grab her but Rose stuun He tried to take aim but with Rose in his line of fire he couldn’t take the risk that she would get caught in the cross fire Swearing roundly, he raced toward the thug, but not before Chadwick ed to catch up with Rose To Barnaby’s horror, the killer grabbed a handful of her hair and yanked her to an abrupt halt

“Ow! Get off me,” Rose protested loudly

“Let her go, Chadwick I knoho you are I promise you now that I will hunt you down to the ends of the earth if you harm her,” Barnaby snarled