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Оглавление“What are you doing?”
“I’m not letting you ride all over the country by yourself, that’s for certain sure,” Johnny replied.
“You have a cabin to fix.”
“You have sisters to find. That outweighs a cabin.”
“You don’t need to do this.”
Johnny flicked the reins and they drove away from the station. “I do need to if I want to be able to live with myself.”
“That’s an odd thing to say.”
He spared Willow a brief glance full of challenge and stubbornness. “I don’t know what kind of men you’ve known in the past, but some of us live by principles, and my principles will not allow me to let a young woman and a baby travel unescorted across Montana.”
She opened her mouth, but could think of no reply, and snapped it shut.
A man with principles? She liked the sound of that. But it didn’t change her plans. Nor her vow to never again trust any man, because, to her sorrow, she knew words came easily.
Noble talk without noble actions was, in her mind, the worst sort of deceit.
