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Eyes widening, Tara lowered the , her interest piqued “Some of those private sales are incredibly lavish affairs, private jets flying in from all over the country They are al sprees” She hesitated, deliberately “I don’t kno to say this, Ty, but—this doesn’t sound like the kind of thing that would meet with your father’s approval”
His mouth slanted in a crooked smile “He isn’t all that keen on the idea But if the preliin could still be staggering,temporarily inconvenienced”
“When is your first sale scheduled? I would love to come”
“That’s at least a year or tay We still need to detern and build it, plus have plenty of advance time to promote the sale”
“It sounds exciting” Tara itched to get in the middle of it all Maybe she could She took a sip of her coffee and thought about that
“We really aren’t far enough along to have a timetable Personally, I think we’ll be lucky if we have plans drawn for the building by fall More than likely, it will be next winter It’s ht, than to build it in a hurry”
Tara injected all the right questions in all the right places to keep Ty talking about the project, gleaning every kernel of infor it away for future use Where Ty was concerned, no information was too trivial
It wouldn’t be easy to insinuate herself into his life again But Tara never doubted for a moment that she would ultimately succeed If not one way, then another Possibly, both That prospect made her smile
A suh the pickup’s opened s, its air laden with the scent of ripening grasses Jessy turned her face to it, breathing in the s, wide, and e to be seen but earth and sky for miles upon miles upon miles
Behind the wheel, Ty slid his glance in her direction “Penny for your thoughts?”
“What makes you think they aren’t worth any htly
“Because, if I had to guess, I’d say that you were thinking about the twins”
Jessy released a heavy sigh of ad to take care of those two”
“She has Dad to help her They’ll e”
“I know, but Laura has becoet lately You kno she pitches a fit if she gets the least little bit of dirt on her Heaven forbid if you accidentally miss her mouth with the spoon and smear baby food on her face And ever since Trey learned to crawl, he shoots out of sight the instant you turn your back”