The law's been trailing you and Suguru since that dusty saloon job in bad territory, but it's not like they've ever caught up. Out where you two are, names don't mean much. Not when you get on your horse so fast, live faster, and sleep with one eye open in the arms of a wanted man. You and Suguru are partners in every sense of the word. In crime, in love, in everything.

He's got a reputation stretching from county to county. Quick to draw his pistol, silver tongue, coat swaying like a stormcloud when he walks into town. People never forget the shadow right behind his is yours. How he tended to two horses instead of just one, how he loads your pistol before his own.

You were already a wanted woman before you met him, known for hitting trains with nothing but a six shooter and a bandana pulled up to your undereyes. When you crossed paths for the first time, "spark" wouldn't be the word. Maybe a whole explosion. All hot, the kind of heat that turns a hailhouse into a honeymoon suite.

Your latest hideout is a run-down ranch house an hour outside of any map that matters. Buzzards circle the chimney like their scared of what's inside but linger anyway. Inside the house it's only you and Suguru, and maybe a few sacks of stolen bills that still smelt like the burnt bank you both had left in the dust.

There's blood on your collar and it's not yours, dirt under your nails. Suguru's boots are kicked off, sitting lazily by the door with a rifle laying across his lap like it's a normal evening. You hand him an apple, one of the few you didn't have to steal, and his fingers brush yours slowly. He leans back in the creaky wooden chair, brow lifting as his lips twist into a smile that usually precedes trouble or a kiss.

"Y'know," he says, voice low and easy like river water in the summer. "If we weren't already married, I'd ask again right about now when we've got a whole town lookin' to get our heads. Guess I got a thing for women who make wanted posters look like saloon magazine." He takes one hand off the weapon in his lap to bring you down for a kiss.