Forever Eva [Sequel to When Kat's Away] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) by Missy Martine Page A

Canders?”
    “Justice caught up to him, and they gave him a necktie party.”
    Tony frowned. “They gave him a what?”
    Zach nudged Tony’s arm. “She means they hanged him.”
    Eva nodded. “I think it’s what messed up Timothy so badly. He told me they made him and his ma watch the hanging.”
    Tony muttered something under his breath. “Who the hell is Timothy?”
    “He’s the man who forced me through the portal.”
    Tony ran his fingers through his hair. “We’re getting out of order here. You’ve told us your story of your mother disappearing. What about Katarina Evans?”
    “She came through in 1899 not long before I came here.”
    “Wait a minute.” Tony stood and paced back and forth. “She disappeared the same day as Anna. Where was she for those 28 years?
    “Mama said the portal could probably take people to any time it wanted. She just happened to get dumped out later than my mama. Kat told us she came looking for Mama. She even called the police to come and help. Then, she went and looked in the saloon because she remembered Mama was interested in it. She said the same red glowy circle sucked her in and dumped her out in the basement at the Silver Rush as well, only she wasn’t unconscious. By then, my brothers David and Winter Warrior were running the saloon, and they found her.”
    “Wait a minute.” Tony sat back down. “You told us Winter Warrior was the Indian’s baby, not your brother.”
    “He’s my adopted brother. Win, we call him that, lost his family in a massacre. Folks said another Indian tribe did it, but my papas helped bury their bodies, and Papa Zeke said he’d swear on a Bible that white men did the killing. Win was wounded, but managed to escape. His ma and pa had always told him to come to Mama if he was in trouble and she’d protect him. He showed up on our doorstep all bruised and bloody, and he’s been there ever since.”
    Zach moved forward on the couch, just barely perching on the edge. “How did Kat react when she found Anna so much older, and with a family?”
    Eva laughed. “She didn’t believe a word of what they told her.” She sighed. “But, she took one look at my brothers, and I don’t think she cared one way or another after that. It was love at first sight for the three of them.”
    Tony sat his can on the table and narrowed his eyes. “You’re telling us that Kat joined your mother and is now living with your brothers in some sort of ménage relationship.”
    “I don’t know what a ménage relationship means.”
    Zach covered a cough that sounded suspiciously like a laugh. “It’s a word to describe three people in a romantic relationship.”
    She nodded. “That’s exactly what I’m telling you.”
    Zach reached over and rubbed Eva’s hand. “You said something about somebody forcing you through the portal.”
    “Yes, I did.” She took a long drink from the cold can. “Timothy is Bart Canders’s only son. He also had a daughter named Alicia. Timothy wasn’t quite right in the head after he saw his father hanged. From what he told me, his pa told him all about Mama coming from the future, and Timothy believed every word of it. For years he tried to court me, probably to get close to the family to learn our secrets. He was beginning to make me really nervous when Kat showed up. When she was introduced as a friend of the family, he became convinced she was from the future, too.”
    “What did he do?” asked Zach.
    “He kidnapped her and held her in a cave. When Win and David rescued her, he got away and made it back to the saloon where he caught up with me. He was trying to force Kat to tell him how to get the red circle to take him to the future when the portal opened and sucked us both inside.”
    Tony clenched his fists, his nostrils flaring. “If both of you came thorough the time portal, where is he? We didn’t see anybody else in town.”
    Eva shrugged. “I don’t know what happened. I remember his hand pulling away