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“I wish Ty were attending a college closer to home” She murmured her wish aloud

“If you had listened to me, he would be,” Chase snapped “But, no, you insisted that Ty make his own choice”

“I know” Her ansas stiff, not inviting further discussion of the subject There had been too e already

“Then stop co” His attention never left the ranch road

“I wasn’t co”

“Well, I wish to hell he’d never gone to college at all!” Chase ground out the angry words

“You’ve made your opinion quite clear before”

“Dammit, it is a waste of tiineer, a teacher, a doctor, then this schooling would be valuable to him But, dammit, he wants to be a rancher He told h practical experience”

“Why? Because that’s the way you learned it? Does that mean it’s the only way?” she countered in a rush of teie squared around in her seat and stiffly crossed her ar with you, Chase,” she said tautly “As far as you’re concerned, there’s a right way and a wrong way—and your way And if it isn’t yours, it’s naturally wrong”

“I know one da for sure My orks” It was a flat, hard answer

The last twenty ed silence Chase wished the first word on the matter had never been said He was never able to explain to Maggie howabout it increased the tension between theiving an inch, never conceding heany validity in his concerns She couldn’t see that he needed her understanding; she was too busy defending her son’s action

He stopped the car by the front steps of The Hoie had opened the passenger door before she realized

he wasn’t coave hi look

“Aren’t you co?”

“No” Glancing beyond her, Chase saw his daughter coreet theo ahead and eat I’ll waret back”