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“Well,” I say with challenge and yeah… I adot, cowboy”

My head spins as he whirls me around once, then leadsover his shoulder to make sure he doesn’t stuh around the second-floor area There are several others doing a two-step around the perimeter For a moment, I have to count in my head so I don’t stumble

One One-two

One One-two

But Tacker is actually an excellent dancer Withouthe and MJ did routinely The et enjoyment from it with someone other than his fiancée is remarkable

And he is enjoying it

He stares down at lad you caht”

“Me too,” I say with no hesitation “It’s nice to make friends”

Tacker’s eyebrows draard “You say that like a woman who has no friends”

“Oh, I have friends,” I assure him “Ones I haven’t talked to in weeks or seen inhours that I never get out to see the your own business is no joke”

“I can iine,” he murmurs “But you do have a ne of friends now, and I know a lot were really charmed by the ranch Consider us all your ‘ne’”

“I’es to execute a flawless one-hundred-eighty-degree spin that puts h, then he’s spinning inal positions

“You’re really good,” I say with a laugh “If hockey doesn’t pan out, ive little old ladies a spin around the dance floor”

“Smartass,” he replies affectionately, and we continue to dance Someti the opportunity to tease the man as such a recluse

He ignores them all

It’s a hthearted Until he says so that makes it not so

“MJ didn’t want to have kids,” he says out of the blue, causing me to stumble over his foot