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Finally there was ti with Ty Athat had been full of such horrible irony

Tara had never wanted the divorce Never At the back of her mind, she had always planned, one day, to win him back, convinced that it would require only a reasonable passage of tioal

A near sob caught in her throat Dear God, she had waited too long She balled a hand into a fist, long nails digging into her palm

But the truth was—she never truly realized how verymoment when she learned he had been shot It all had become crystal-clear to her in that instant

For a tiay, Texas divorcee But not a single man she met had ever measured up even close to Ty A discovery she had made too late

The bitterness of that disappoint way ale that Jessy was going to have Ty’s child Even worse, she was going to have twins

Ty would never walk away from the mother of his children That stupid code he lived by wouldn’t allow him to do it

Not for the first ti Ty a child She had always known he wanted one, but she had been too worried about the daure Now she had lost him forever

Every ounce of her body screamed that it wasn’t fair

Suddenly her life stretched before her as miserable and empty as the sky behind the plane’s

How could Ty do this to her? Surely he knerealization that he knew and didn’t care As disgustingly trite as it sounded, he had duet aith that, not withouthim pay Dearly

Chapter Three

The bawl of cow and calf traveled across the rolling grass plainsand rattle of iron chutes and headgate High in the vast blue sky, the sun looked on, indifferent to the noisy activity below

It was preg-check time on the Triple C, a tinant or not It was one of many thankless tasks on the ranch that was colamour At the same time it was necessary to the operation’s ultimate financial success No rancher could afford to winter over a cow that remained barren more than two years, or a bull that couldn’t service all his cows Nor could a rancher afford to wait until the following spring to learn the outcome

Astride a dun-colored buckskin, Jessy slapped a coiled rope against her leg and herded the last cow out of th