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Merry asked. “Have you changed your mind about moving? Is that it?”

He should have shrugged off her questions, but dammit, she had him cornered, and he was tired of hiding his feelings. If Merry wanted answers, then by God he’d give them to her!

“And what if I have?” Nick tossed back at her. “What do you think would keep me here? Or maybe I should ask who, dammit! Think about it, Merry. Who could possibly be keeping me in Liberty Hill?”

Caught off guard, Merry just stood there, sure she must have heard wrong. But there was something in his eyes, a frustrated hurt directed solely at her, that set her heart slamming against her ribs and the ground dissolving beneath her feet. Stunned, she shook her head. No. This couldn’t be happening. He couldn’t be saying what she thought he was saying. There had to be some kind of mistake.

He couldn’t mean…