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“Returned? You’re not just visiting?”

She shook her head

Well didn’t that just present so possibilities? “Fill ia Hotchkiss”

“If I bare all, McKay, you’d better be willing to do the sa, sweetness”

She blushed

Huh How about that

Once they’d been served their drinks, Georgia said, “When was the last tiht at the lake” She’d shown up in skintight Daisy Duke short-shorts and an icy-blue tank top that matched her eyes He’d stood by the bonfire,on her beautiful face, taking her frooddess She’d only stayed long enough to forever burn that iot raduation RJ died the next summer Then my mom left my dad I was divorced froe in Laraot a job in Dallas That’s it”

Okay Maybe he’d expected more But…she had boiled it down to the basics

She took a drink “You knoas so self-involved back then I have no idea if you went to college”

Tell shook his head

“Why not? You were definitely sraduated at the top of our class”

“There were only a hundred and thirty kids in our class,” he said dryly

“You never considered it?”

Even though ten years had passed, Tell couldn’t confess there’d been norancher My life choices were decided for me when I was born” He sipped his beer “But I did take off the summer I turned nineteen Spent threepro” Part of hiuilty about leaving all the ranch work to his brothers, and he’d ht possible

“That was the su at the cocktail napkin An air of sadness softened her brusque demeanor

It ripped at hi on a brave face or a funny face because that’s as expected He covered her hand “I’ia didn’t pull away from his touch “Did you know my father went off the deep end two ain “Sorry This is all old news to you I’ossips had a field day”

“I never heard anything about it,” he lied

“I don’t knohich is worse Being the object of gossip Or no one caring enough to gossip about you”

He had no idea what to say to that

The band started tuning up

Hersh about ?”