The Lawman Takes A Wife. Anne Avery
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Название: The Lawman Takes A Wife
Автор: Anne Avery
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Историческая литература
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“You were mad about a lot more than me not bringing that plate back pronto.”
“Oh, dear. I should have known. But then I thought—”
She stopped, blushed.
“You thought…?” Witt prompted, fascinated by the mix of emotions that washed across her face.
She bit her lower lip, shook her head. The color in her cheeks was rapidly changing from rose to scarlet.
She had very kissable lips.
He bent closer. He couldn’t help himself. She drew him like a magnet drew iron. “Yes?”
“I thought you thought I was too…forward. That I was…”
Closer still. “Yes?”
“Chasing you.” The words escaped on a gasp.
Witt’s head spun. Molly Calhan? Chasing him? Him?
He liked the thought. A lot.
The Lawman Takes a Wife
Harlequin Historical #573
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ANNE AVERY
The Lawman Takes a Wife #573
This book is for Dame Agatha and Phinneas T. Dogg,
who have stuck by me from the first.
And in loving memory of Osa, the Wonder Bear,
who tended to shed.
Contents
Chapter One
“What’d I tell you? That’s him.”
“You sure?” Bonnie Calhan frowned down at her eight-year-old brother. With the superior perspective of her eleven years, she’d learned to be cautious—even making Dickie cross his heart and hope to die wasn’t always a guarantee you could believe him. Now that he’d grabbed hold of this latest wild notion of his, there was just no telling at all.
Dickie wasn’t paying her any mind, anyway. He was standing on tiptoe, face pressed against the tall, narrow front window of Elk City’s sheriff’s office, straining to see inside.
“Are you sure?” she insisted, poking him to make him listen.
He grudgingly backed away from the window and dusted his hands on the seat of his overalls. “Certain sure. Saw him come in on the train last night. He was carryin’ a rifle an’ a saddle an’ askin’ for the mayor. An’ I heard him sayin’ somethin’ about the sheriff’s office. Honest. Couldn’t be nobody else.”
“Anybody else.”
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