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“I have solass and tossed down part of the whiskey

“You can think out loud,” Tara urged and“Maybe I can help I do know sohter”

“Beneath all the Dior and dia and the diamond studs in her ears,

“There are brains, yes” She s the combination of wiles and charm that served her so well

“I don’t doubt that there are business areas where you are knowledgeable, but you don’t understand how this outfit is run”

To be so lightly regarded goaded her “I understand that it’s been run the wrong way, or it wouldn’t be in the trouble that you’ve found it,” she retorted “It hasn’t been operated like a business It’s been run like so but profit comes first”

“This is a working ranch, and you can’t base its operations on short-terains” His patience was on the thin side

“How can you do that when the ranch is operating under methods that are twenty years old, if not older than that?” Tara argued, but she kept a reasoning tone “Tie with the out there on that land, do you?” she said, gesturing toward the curved and twisted horns above theout these out It has to be run more efficiently”

“You say that as if there’s nothing to it” Ahis jaw “I’ a way to cut costs or create a new source of inco would be dao out in the back forty and sink a well to pay for it like soas there!”

“But there’s coal, Ty” She said it quietly, eyeing hi

the eagerness that vibrated inside “Tons of it Enough to make you so rich it wouldn’t matter if this ranch earned a penny You could beco of the whole country”

“No” It was a hard sound, poised on the edge of anger “You know da”

“It doesn’t e,” Tara reminded him with that sa”

“For the tih there had been no tined His poas limitless

“Be realistic, Ty,” she insisted “Your father is going to be hospitalized for at least a year And after that, you knoell as I do that he’ll never be able to take this kind of stress and strain There will be a limit to what he can do So it’s your ranch from now on And it’s up to you to decide how best to run it”