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“I think I may love her”

“Love her?” Nicholas shook his head “Not possible”

“Why? Because you don’t feel the same?”

“I never said that”

“Then what is it? Because she was only with us for a few hours?”

“We haven’t known her that long”

“Love has nothing to do with tirandparents knew one another for twelve days before they were ether for sixty-five years and never spent a night apart You think she thought Grandpa didn’t love her when he married her? Why, shit no He loved her from the moment he saw her”

Nicholas turned back to face the river and theSable here”

“I hope so” Trevor rested his hand on Nicholas’s shoulder “You’ve never been in love, Nicholas, so maybe you don’t know yet, but if you search your heart, I think you’ll find you have sos for Sable, too”

Nicholas thinned his lips He was ready to call it a day and he kneanted to spend the rest of the evening “We should be out there looking for her”

Trevor grinned “As it turns out, the others are already up at the processing center waiting on us We’re going to see that sheriff in Drover and if he knohat’s good for hiirl”

Chapter Seven

Jackson Square Memorial Hospital

Drover Station, Tennessee

“You need sootistical asshole behind the condescending voice remained hidden but Markie knehere to look for bastards with perceived power They typically found a way to place barriers between themselves and those they tried to inti an authoritative tone laced with an equal serving of evil and arrogance “I asked you a question”