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Crystal earbobs danced against her pale-as-milk slender neck. She looked extravagant and indulged.

A woman who dressed as if she was due to go to a ball was all wrong for the frontier. Wrong for the hard life in a trapper’s cabin. Wrong for him.

Jack focused on the woman as he walked closer.

‘I’ll give you fifty dollars for her,’ said the man beside her.

Jack hesitated. Fifty dollars was a lot of money—not as much as it had cost to get her here, but enough that he could reconsider and send for another bride.

Olivia’s eyes widened.

‘Unhand her,’ Jack said softly.