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Оглавление“I’m going to bunk here so I can keep an eye on things...”
Lizzie was going to sleep in the stable? On the floor?
It felt wrong to leave her there, which was silly because Heath had spent many a night in the lambing barns. But this wasn’t him. It was Lizzie. And when she stuck a ridiculously small pillow behind her head, he wanted to snatch it, send her to bed and say he’d watch the horse.
She gazed up at him, looking so much like the girl she’d been twelve years before. But different, too.
“It’s my job, Heath.” She kept her voice quiet. Matter-of-fact. And quite professional. “People don’t inherit a quarter share of a ranch worth millions without putting in some time. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
She was right. He knew that.
But walking away from her—moving through the door into the cold spring night—was one of the toughest things he’d done in a long time.
He did it because it was the right thing to do. But he hated every minute of it.
