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One thing was missing.

“Hey, you.” As if he’d heard her thoughts, Josh appeared.

“I thought you’d ditched me.”

“Not hardly,” he drawled with a lazy grin. “Been arranging a horse for your niece.”

Heather smiled. “How do you always have a solution to my problems?”

“A knack for being in the right place at the right time, I guess.”

And for stepping up to do more than any girl had a right to expect, she thought.

That’s when she realized she could be in trouble with this country boy. She’d always been too independent to lean on someone, too afraid they’d leave.

Would Josh?

“That’s a serious face,” he teased, ticking her nose. “What’s going on in that pretty head?”

“Just thinking. You know, guys usually tell me I’m too much work. Why don’t you feel that way?”

She held her breath to hear his reply.

“Some things are worth the effort. And—” he pulled down his hat in a rakish pose “—there’s nothing I like more than a good challenge.”