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“Either inter’s way too cold for what I have inelse—except possibly a bottle of wine

“Hopefully we can get soive us o on”

We weren’t just running after hi any of our calls, e to bet he’d flushed his phone down the toilet, knowing his aversion to communication

When I’d called Uncle Bill, he said he gave hiotten worried when Stuart took off for the little cabin out on the plain and hadn’t come back

“Bill’s too old to be running around playing nursemaid Stuart knows better than to do him like that”

Derek’s lips tightened, and I could tell he was equally worried “Unless he didn’t have a choice”

We took our bags, thanked the s lot I kneas concerned about hts were on Melissa

“You don’t have to stay Once we knohat’s happening, you can go back to Wilton”

His eyes cut to me “More like you can”

It was true Captain Asshat would rather die than come across as weaker than me “How about we just play it by ear”

Bill had left a truck for us in the PJ lot It had enored tires and was perma-frost ready Winter hadn’t set in yet, but I kne bad it could get in another

Manyway out of town, and ere at the ranch The sun was loe stepped onto the wood porch, but I couldn’t stand and admire it Derek wanted answers, and he wanted them now

The house was designed in a long U shape, with the kitchen and living areas in the s The east and west sides were identical, each with two bedrooms that shared a bath and two suite rooe barn with ten stables and a paddock off to the side

Bill was in the kitchen e

“You’re filling out, boy!” He squeezed ot some muscle in there Leftover from your military days?”