Josh asked after calling to explain he needed to do several patrols over the next few days covering for a deputy on vacation and one out with a sick baby. She hesitated in saying no. Yet, she declined with good reason. “Thank you for the offer, but I need to grade a final set of papers and finish...
He knew he could care deeply for her and probably already did. He was physically attracted to her in a way that excited him. He had never felt like this before, not this quickly and certainly not this intensely. It was almost as if the night he had seen her sleeping in the swing on the front porc...
Weighing their options, Mason quickly concluded that encumbered with gear made it impossible to do anything other than cooperate. Not that Mason had any other brilliant ideas. He considered himself fortunate for being able to formulate any coherent or intelligible thoughts, period. What he did co...
It saddened Nic to think of the faithful mount he'd lost in Ireland--another price of war. Nevertheless, losing Trojan was nothing in comparison to his loss of Morgan and his baby. His men did not complain of the pace their leader set for them. They knew better, but more than that, the men knew t...