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Abruptly Chase cocked his head at a listening angle “Did you hear that?”

“Hear what?” Laredo asked, co alert

“A noise I thought it calanced at Cat “You’re already up Go see if anyone’s there”

“I think you’re hearing things, Dad But I’ll go check” Like hiht have arrived The possibility had her walking a little more quickly to the entryway

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When Cat looked out thenext to the front door, the vieas obscured by the heavy snowfall, driven by blustering winds Through the wintry veil, she could just -ti else, no vehicle and no human

Any sense of disappointave way to relief Cat didn’t want to think about Wade being out in this stor the ht

She returned to the living room “It must have been the wind you heard, Dad,” she told hi bad out there I can just barely make out the shape of the old barn Visibility is down to less than a hundred feet I’lad you all arrived when you did”

“And so say all of us” Sebastian raised his glass in a toasting gesture that offered a whole-hearted agreement with her sentiment

“Personally,” Laura began, “I’ed blizzard It snows occasionally in England, but the storms don’t have the violence that Montana can dish out I’ve missed that a little”

“Leave it to you to find it exciting,” Trey nation

“Please, no lectures on the losses the Triple C could suffer from this,” she countered “I’ But the stor anyone can do to stop it, so I’ to enjoy it”

Trey started to reply, but Jessy broke in “Let’s not start bickering, you two”

Sloan supported her by changing the subject “Dallas, would you like to look at Laura’s pictures of the restoration work they’ve been doing at Crawford Hall? We’re finished with the album”

Banding with thereed “Yes, I would”