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Оглавление“That’s the last time I ride a horse.”
Eloise wiped the last of the tears from her cheeks with her palms.
Cory led the horses toward the barn door and Eloise beelined toward the fence.
He could hear the guffaws of the ranch hands already—if he chose to tell the story, that was. They loved a good city slicker story. He wouldn’t tell it, though. He knew that already. She might not be much of a cowgirl, but she didn’t deserve to be mocked.
Don’t fall for her, he chided himself. As she walked away, her fiery curls whipping in the wind, he led the horses into the barn.
“Lexie,” he murmured to his horse. “You should have known better than to gallop with her.” But it wasn’t the horse’s fault, nor Eloise’s. It was his, for having expected something that he never should have hoped for.
Why was he doing this to himself? He had to stop this—whatever it was between them.
But right now nothing short of divine intervention would make him stop falling for her.
