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“I have a confession to make,” Sam said. “About me.”
Оглавление“Are you…are you an outlaw? A wanted man?” Prissy held herself very still, as if she were afraid of the answer.
“No,” he said.
“Are you…are you married?” Her voice was a shaky whisper. “Did you leave a wife behind somewhere?”
He couldn’t stop the hoot of laughter that burst out of him and seemed to bounce off the twisted tree limbs hanging above them. “No, Prissy! No, I’m not married, or promised or anything like that.”
“Then what could it be?” she asked, her blue eyes puzzled in the sun-dappled shade. “If you’re not in trouble with the law, or married…”
“I’m sorry, I don’t mean to make you play a guessing game,” he said, contrite over the worry that furrowed the lovely brow framed by her strawberry-blond curls. “Here’s my confession—I didn’t come to Simpson Creek for the sheriff job.”
“Y-you didn’t? Then why—”
“I came to meet you.”
