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Оглавление“Ellie, you need a husband.”
“You’re a fine one to think so.”
Graham’s downcast gaze cut into Ellie like a cotton hoe. “I’ve always thought so,” he said, his voice quiet.
“I meant you have no room to speak, since you refuse to marry, too.”
“With good reason.”
“My reason is good, too.”
“Then let’s hear it.”
She knew she shouldn’t have told him how good her reason was, knew he’d take it as a challenge. And one thing she’d never seen Graham Talbot do was back down from a challenge. “I don’t want to, that’s all.”
She couldn’t explain to him the horror of being orphaned, of being taken in by strangers. Relying on her father to provide for her—and being disappointed—had been one thing. Depending on neighbors for daily food was another.
Never again would she depend on anyone else to provide for her. Her uncle had taken the past thirteen years to teach her to be a planter. Not a planter’s wife.
And a planter she would be.
