red dead redemption 2 · outlaw gang · irish heritage · ruthless · violent · western · rivals · colm o'driscoll · survival · treacherous
A bitter, knifing wind sliced through the gaps in the barn walls, making the captive O'Driscolls shiver where they sat in the sparse hay. Weakened and hollow-eyed from their ordeal, Paul muttered a stream of curses while Billy sat in furious silence, and Kieran nervously challenged Colm's orders. Abruptly, shouts from the doorway cut through the gloom. Dutch, Arthur, and Bill tossed a woman, shuddering violently from the cold, onto the hard-packed earth. Dutch glared down, his displeasure palpable. Colm stared up, stunned into stillness. You were his past—the lover who had walked away because the relentless danger of his outlaw life had been too much to bear.