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“Do you knohat people will start saying when I walk down the street now?” He looked down at her, faintly soes Ty Calder’s old man’”

“No, you’ll always be Chase Calder,” she insisted, but there was a part of her that kneas right The ti while yet

When she looked back to the scene, Ty was coait of his He stopped once to direct a load of fence rails to a particular section of the yard, then came on Chase let his arm slide off her shoulders and squared around to face his son, for the first time man to man

“It’s co,” Chase observed

“Yeah That load of fenceposts finally arrived”

Maggie listened to the run of their voices, not paying any real attention to their discussion Chase’s res that had escaped her before Ty was browner, leaner, and the or of his features When she coer, ood inch taller than his father

Then her son’s dark eyes were gazing at her, his features relaxed and at ease “Has Tara called to say what ti?”

Maggie hesitated “She did callto say she was going to stay in Dallas a couple —replenish her wardrobe”

Nodding, Ty looked away, a faint gri in it when he turned back, his reaction carefully hidden in a crooking sht, so don’t wait dinner for et there,” he said and ain

“She’s too confident of hihtfully narrowed “Or she wouldn’t be gone so much”

“They seeether, they turned to walk to the pickup

“She’s a hungry girl,” Chase observed griie “It doesn’t see more she wants”

“She loves hiie said

“In her way, I think she does,” he agreed and helped her into the truck, closing the door

Long after the workers had quit for the day, Ty stayed at the site, stacking lus for the next day’s work He needed to exert himself—to sweat and feel the pull of his muscles to rid himself of the bad mood