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“You can’t have everything you want,” he told her

Her shoulders sagged and she swayed toward hi ainst the woolen cap covering her black silk hair

“I don’t want everything, Repp I just want you,” she said very siet to feeling desperate Two years seeony of time

“They’ll go by fast,” he lied Soar, and Repp stiffened “Did you hear that?”

“What?” She lifted her head from the comfortable and intimate pillow of his shoulder

“I think I heard so his ar to check”

“There’s no one out there,” Cat protested “You probably just heard the wind rattling the tin roof”

He ignored her explanation to glide silently to the office door “Wait here,” he whispered

“No I’ with you,” she insisted She spoke louder than she intended and it carried through the door Repp had opened

“Sssh,” he warned

Cat kept a hand on him so she wouldn’t lose contact as they stole out of the office into the darkened shed A coyote wailed a lonely call froh light to ared in the shed Repp picked his way through the shadows, looking and listening

Another faint sound came to them, unidentifiable It seemed to have come from one of the ranch planes, the one Cat’s father usually flew They side it

“There” Cat pointed at the access door to the engine compartment It was open “It must not have been latched properly and the wind blew it open”

“I guess so” He left her to shut the door and ht When he came back, he looked around, not co hiar or was there still He started worrying about Cat “It’s late, nearly o back FU walk you partway”

“But—”