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Channing winced at Gemma’s hard slap of words. “No. But maybe you’d like to give me a chance to explain myself before you go jumping to conclusions.”“Fine. I’m listening. But even you gotta admit things are different now.”“Yeah, they’re probably worse, Gem.” Channing leaned against the concrete wall and resisted beating her head into it. She closed her eyes.“How long is Colby going to be in the hospital? A week? Two? When he’s well enough to leave, he’ll have to return home to the ranch because he won’t be able to take care of himself. His family will expect to do that, as they should. You really think they’ll want me—a strange woman from the East Coast—around?“Do you think Colby will want me underfoot? God. When he was injured in Greeley he’d get all pissy whenever I fussed around him. The man is stubborn. And proud. He didn’t want me to see him as weak so he took chances he shouldn’t have. That injury wasn’t nearly as serious as this one is. He’ll have months of physical therapy
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Or that she’d forgotten about him as she was on the Eastern seaboard teaching readin’, writin’ and ’rithmetic.Probably they called it something else at that fancy-pants school where she was hiding away.No doubt Channing was hiding. From him. From herself. From what she’d said to him in the hospital when she didn’t know he could hear her. Colby didn’t have any idea what to do about fixing things. Hell, he couldn’t do anything about it until he was a whole man again.Lord. He missed her. After one glorious week Channing meant everything to him. During the last night he’d spent making love to her, showing her how he felt, he knew she’d never just waltz away.I’ll be waiting.But where? It seemed as if Channing Kinkaid had dropped off the face of the earth.A couple of weeks back after he’d gotten through the worst of the pain, he’d taken a chance and called her cell phone only to discover it’d been disconnected. That left him adrift because he didn’t know her parents’ names. He didn’t
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“That horse nearly throd you clean into the funeral parlor, boy.”Whoops of cowboy laughter cut through the dusty air.Gemma Jansen hung on the edge of the trash-talking bronc riders, waiting for a break in the conversation. The rodeo announcer’s voice reverberated through the arena stands as he pumped up the crowd for the next event: steer wrestling.“I didn’t break nothin’, but he shore loosened my jaw so’s I tasted some dirt.”Another round of male laugher.A baby-faced kid shoved a plug of tobacco in his cheek. “I’d rather have a bucker like him than the last one I had. Shoot. That bronc couldn’ta tossed off a baby blanket.”Gemma jammed her hands in her jeans pockets and sauntered closer to prop a hip against the muddy tailgate. “Afternoon, boys.”Immediately slouched postures straightened. A couple of the younger fellas even removed their hats. Aw. Their mommas would’ve been proud at their show of respect.Still, it made Gemma feel…old.Feel? Hell, she was old enough to be any o
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“You don’t owe me nothin’, Cash. Just forget it.”Cash grabbed the young woman’s hand, dragging her front and center. “I’d love to milk this jealous side of you for all it’s worth, but I ain’t that mean. Or that patient.Gemma, meet my daughter, Macie Honeycutt. Macie, Gemma Jansen.”*********Relief swept through Gemma.“Ah. She’s the one you told me about,” Macie said with a charming grin exactly like her father’s.“Daughter?” Gemma repeated.Cash kept his gaze on hers. “Yep.”“I-I didn’t know you had any kids.”“There’s a lot you don’t know about me, Gem.”A pointed silence thickened the air.“Well, this is fun… not,” Macie said.“Macie, darlin’, I know you just pulled in and we’ve got some catchin’ up to do. But I’d appreciate it if you’d run along for a bit and wait for me by the main entrance until after I have a private word with Miz Jansen.”“Fine. I hate being a third wheel anyway. But don’t be surprised if I make a few new friends on my own.”He shot his daughter a warning l
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“But—”“Would it matter if I was older than you?”“No.”“Then it don’t matter that you got a few years on me.” He kissed her hotly, a drawn out seductive promise. “Besides, you’re sexy. Kinda remind me of Madonna.”“Madonna the pop singer? But she’s—”“The same age as you.” He squinted at her. “Yep, definitely. You’re like Madonna in a cowgirl hat. And if I had my pick of any of the ladies—including the material girl, I’d still choose you.”“I forgot what a sweet-talker you are.” She steered the conversation back to business.“I’m heading back to my ranch today. When can you be there to start?”“Damn.” He frowned and shuffled back a step. “One kiss and my mind is on a single track.”“What?”“Macie. We’d planned to spend the summer traveling together. Since her momma died a coupla years back, she ain’t got no one else. I can’t just shove her aside, especially when I been doin’ that to the poor kid her whole life.”Without conscious thought, she smoothed the guilt from his puckered brow
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For the past week he’d been finishing sculptures for his gallery showing. A series of interconnected Western pieces, different styles, including clay pieces slated to become bronze statues, and welded metal works using rusted sections of discarded farm equipment. So far the only concrete images on canvas were landscapes done with oil paints. Boring. He needed inspiration, something new and different. The only way to find the passion that defined his quirky artistic style was to start at the source of all things Western: rodeo. The salt-of-the-earth people—spectators, families of the cowboys and cowgirls, and the iron will of the competitors themselves. The livestock—angry, slobbering bulls, high-strung broncs kicking at the metal chutes, the bellow of steers, the nervous tamping of hooves behind the gates. The low bellow of the steers and calves in the pens. The rich scents of sweat and leather, mud and manure, the choking heat and the constant buzz of insects, hay and linament, toba
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He cocked his head. “Interestin’.”“What?”“That you have the face of an Indian princess and the mouth of a truck driver.”Against her better judgment, Macie smiled. “I’ll admit that line was better.”“I ain’t usin’ a line on you.” Serious once again, he stared at her steadily. “What’s your name?”“What’s yours?” she countered.“Carter.”She mimicked his posture and cocked her head. “Interestin’.”“What?”“That you have the face of a Viking warrior and the name of a Georgia peanut farmer.”His enormous grin, with a side of deep-set dimples, nearly knocked her off her game.Damn. This Carter guy was trouble with a capital ‘T’.“You always such a smart-mouth?”She shrugged. “It’s a gift.”“Or a curse.” Still smiling, he leaned closer. “So, what is your name?”“Macie.”“Pretty. A little odd, a little flowery, but it fits you.”Macie frowned. “Was that an insult?”“Not at all. Anyway, Amazin’ Macie. You from around here?”“No.”“Just passin’ through?”“Yep.”“With who? By yourself? Or wit
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“That’s not a good idea.”“It’s the best idea I’ve had in a long time. Be ready.”“For what?”“For me to be the man to give you everything you’ve ever wanted.”******Gemma and Carter were lost in their own thoughts on the way back to the Bar 9.Once they hit the sagebrush and wide-open spaces of Wyoming, Gemma sighed. “Sorry to spring this on you, Carter. I was afraid if you knew I was lookin’ for another fulltime foreman—”“—that I’d bail on you? Come on, Gemma, you know me better than that. I promised I’d be here all summer. Despite the shitty opinion Cash has of the McKays, you know we always keep our word.”“That you do.”“What’s really goin’ on?”She didn’t take her eyes off the gray ribbon of bumpy road. “I wasn’t sure he’d say yes.”“So? It ain’t like he’s the only man for the job. Shoot, there’s lots of guys around here more than qualified.”Gemma angled her chin from Carter’s shrewd eyes so he couldn’t see her blush.“Hellfire and damnation. He is the only one you wanted, ai
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