“I’m never the one men pick first,” she murmured. Then the cowboy lifted the lid of the lockbox—and a hush fell over the entire town.
Mason Bennett’s jaw tightened. “My children need school.” “And the school,” Grant replied, “needs order.” Claire looked at him then. Really looked. Not at the breadth of his...
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