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“I didn’t know I needed your per to our contract, I can raise anything on my land”

“Blast it, I’ about common sense If you’d asked me, I’d have told you that sheep are a sure way to ht when you need to make friends”

“I don’t need friends as as raise sheep in Mexico I kno to take care of therateful But sooner or later I have to strike out onthe boys over”

His htened “Jasper’s fine But all my sons can talk about are those damned sheep of yours”

“So what now?” Rose asked

“I’ve already come up with a solution There’s a far to take your lambs and raise them with his on private, fenced land I’ve already called hi as they’re healthy, he’ll even pick theet a better deal than that”

“And then what?”

“We can work out so we can both live with”

Bull was trying to be fair, Rose told herself But he was doing it again—taking over her life The laht to keep and raise them And, so help her, that hat she intended to do

“Sorry, Bull, no deal,” she said “I’ the lambs”

His expression hardened “Fine Do what you want But those lambs won’t always be little The first one that wanders off your property is going to becoet practice”

Rose stifled a gasp “You’re saying you’d shoot them?”

“I’ about me”

Without another word, Bull turned away, strode to his truck, and climbed inside Frozen in shock, Rose watched him drive off The lines had been drawn, firm and clear But what had Bull meant? Would someone really shoot her precious sheep?

Never ht now she had work to do