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“I wasn’t speaking about the horse,” he answered, and this time his smile was a leer

Ashton had already allant, “I don’t think we have been properly introduced, nor do I think I intend that to happen” So saying, he nodded to Felicia and ht pat

A giggle forced its gurgling way out of her throat She grinned at Ashton, looked back at the gallant Ashton had suain “You were quite dreadful to that poor young man,” she told him

“He was ogling you and deserved worse than I gave him, and he dashed well knows it” Ashton frowned “It is roo idea, you see”

Her expression flitted over her features as apparent dawning lit in her brain, but instead of shock, she burst out laughing “Oh! That is why he was so very forward I wondered at it” So saying she laughed again and added, “So then he thought ht-skirts, eh?”

He turned a shocked expression to her “Felicia!”

This onlyin on her mirth, at which point she said, “Come on, then, if we mean to ride before we lose the best of the day”

“As you co her ahis horse up to ride alongside her

“Be careful,

madcap,” he said “You can’t canter him off now, as I see you mean to do, without a proper warm-up”

“I have been riding for as long as I can remember, often without a saddle,” she answered with her brow up “I knohat I can and cannot do”

Scott’s horse under him nipped playfully at her horse, and he repri on horseback, and during that moment he realized he had never been happier

Just as happening to him?

~ Thirteen ~

FELICIA WAS WELL ahat her heart was experiencing and just as happening to her She had fallen hopelessly, endlessly in love with Glen Ashton She knew so very little about him, about his life, his family, but she didn’t need to know details She loved not only the look and cut of the man, but she loved the way his mind worked