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Оглавление“So why didn’t you get married?”
Jacob raised one eyebrow and continued, “Maybe I’m not the only one concerned about losing someone special. Is that why you got engaged to a man you didn’t really love? No one could blame you after the way your mother and father died.”
Mariah had never slapped a man, but she was within inches now. Jacob didn’t have any place questioning her relationship with Luke, or bringing up her parents.
“Back off,” she ordered furiously, without letting Jacob say another word.
The repair of the fence took less than five minutes and she efficiently replaced the tools in Shadow’s saddlebag.
“We’re done,” she said shortly.
“No ‘we’ about it. You wouldn’t let me help.”
“Don’t push me, Jacob,” she warned. “I may not have liked the city, but I took self-defense classes when I lived there and you wouldn’t enjoy being on the receiving end of what I learned.”
To her utter aggravation, he just laughed.
