“You two have a good time?” Maddie asked bluntly, leaning back in her chair in the saloon. Any further and Darlene thought she would certainly fall. But Maddie stayed steadily balanced, a bottle of whiskey in her hand, resting on her knee. The shot glass sat on the table, clearly unused.

Darlene didn’t bother to answer her, she knew where the conversation would lead and she knew the Sherriff wasn’t interested in hearing the details of their sex in the jail cell spread throughout the town’s saloon.

“They have anything good to eat tonight?” Darlene asked. The saloon also doubled as a hotel, and they had a kitchen with decent enough food. Not up to Abigail Mae’s standards, by any means, but it would serve.

“Hey, barkeep!” Maddie shouted above the raucous chatter. “Bring us some vittles!”

The bartender made quick work of producing some sort of beef stew with carrots and onions and a chunk of bread that wasn’t quite stale yet. He was a fairly young man, with a nice, well trimmed beard and Darlene didn’t recall seeing him here the last time she’d been in. He was wide across the chest and had big strong arms, and Darlene saw that Maddie had taken notice of him as he served them.

“What’s the matter, barkeep? Ain’t got no servin’ wenches?” Maddie asked.

His eyes darted up stairs for a split second. “Mary is… indispoosed… at ta moment.” He had a thick Scottish accent; he’d clearly not been over in the states for long.

“Hard to get good help these days, if they ain’t stealing, they’re skippin’ out on work. Of course, I reckon Mary’s earnin’ her share right about now, just on her back instead of on her feet.” Everyone in the town knew the barmaids here were also prostitutes, and Maddie only brought it up to see if it got a rise out of the new barkeep. It didn’t seem to bother him, and he went right back about his business.

Maddie offered Darlene and Sherriff Harper a shot of her whiskey, and they accepted. The three sat and ate, chatting idly from time to time. Maddie made passing mention that she had run into the Sherriff’s young deputy, and a sly comment about seeing more of him again soon.

As Darlene and Sherriff Harper excused themselves from the table, Darlene tossed a couple of dollars down on the table. “I never got around to booking the room for tonight. Might be, I won’t even need it.” Maddie smiled as she noticed the Sherriff flinch. Darlene had grabbed his ass and given it a firm squeeze.

When the two had departed, Maddie sat with her greasy plate in front of her and began pounding back the whiskey in her hand. After a few swigs her mind turned to some entertainment for the evening. Though she wasn’t quite sure if it would end with somebody’s blood on her knuckles or their cum on her tits. A smile played across her lips as she thought that there may even be a shot at both.

The swinging doors flew open with a slam and three dirty cowboys barged in. The room fell quiet for a second, everyone turning to investigate who had made such a loud entrance. “These boys might serve,” thought Maddie.

They were all covered in grime and one of them had a nasty streak of tobacco juice running out of his mouth and into his beard. Maddie eased her chair back again, propping one knee against the table, making sure she was in full view as they strolled toward the bar.

“Well lookee here,” one of them said “Looks like this place got a new piece of pussy to go along with the new barkeep.”

“Izzat right? You a new whore? If you are I seen prettier. Not with bigger tits though.”

“She ain’t no whore, Lester. Jess look at ‘er. What kinda whore would dress up like a man?”

“Yer friend’s got the right of it, Lester. I ain’t no whore. Just here to have a drink and a good time.” Maddie said after biting her tongue through their idiotic conversation.

“Well, yer pardons lil’ lady. I meant no offense to ya,” said the one she figured to be Lester. “I see you got a mighty full bottle o’ whiskey there. You reckon you could use some company to help ya finish ‘er off?”

“Tell ya what,” Maddie said, raising one eyebrow mischeviously, “Any man here can outdrink me, I’ll take him upstairs and fuck him till his cock has a kink in it.”