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Оглавление“Bodie can sleep on the ride back.”
“Let me take her,” Rex offered. “The brim of my hat will give her some shade.”
Callie looked down at her sleepy baby. “All right.”
He tightened the cinches on the saddles again while Callie fashioned a sling for her daughter. Bodie whimpered a mild protest as they slung her sideways against Rex’s chest, her head nestled in the hollow of his shoulder, but then she reached up a little hand and laid it against his throat, as if feeling the beat of his pulse was all she needed to lull her to sleep.
Callie heard herself whisper, “She loves you.”
“I love her, too,” Rex said softly. He looked up then, his blue eyes as pale and warm as the summer sky. “I’ll miss the two of you if you leave the ranch.”
If, not when. Confused, Callie dared not reply to that. Anything she said would lay bare her heart, and that simply was not wise.
