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Laredo shrugged and saze ar

She had the i her carefully As if he wasevery feature of her face But she couldn’t detect anthing that suggested Laredo was troubled by thehis past life Did heside by side when he was a

“To the Boar’s Nest? Takes a while to heat up that old line shack, but there is plenty of firewood”

“The ranch, then We don’t have to go in to the main house I just want to be somewhere alone with you We don’t have to talk either”

“I like the way you think” He retrieved an ancient hand-tooled leather wallet fro them under the condiments holder where the waitress could see them

“Thanks for dinner” She smiled at him

“Any time”

Eventually, they pulled over on one of the ranch’s back roads and just held each other for a long ti There was a sweet intensity to his strong and slow love lately At the saentle caresses o so far in the cab of a pickup on a winter night

Laredo lifted his head and glanced out and around, as if he was checking their surroundings The ie of the horizon

“Look at that,” Laredo said

Jessyarht sky, shining froh in the atmosphere

“It’s beautiful,” Jessyyou don’t see very often”

“Maybe it’s a sign”

She turned to look at his shadowed face He wasn’t s “Of what?”

He gave a short, low laugh “If you asked Chase, he’d say it meant bad weather was on the way”