TAKE up as if nothing ever happened?” Isaiah asked dryly. If she hadn’t thought she’d damage her elbow on his rock-hard stomach, she would have elbowed him right then. If telling him to shut up would have had any effect beyond tickling his sense of humor, she would have told him to shut up. Unfortunately, the meeting with her cousins was going to be dramatic enough. She didn’t need to be in the middle of a dispute with her rescuer as soon as they rode up. Never mind the issue that ladies didn’t tell gentlemen, no matter how disreputable, to shut up, and women who wanted to give the illusion of being in control didn’t lose their tempers. “So I was wrong.” Addy watched as the riders came over the hill, recognizing her cousin’s big palomino right off. Cole only rode that horse when he was out for blood. “Uh-huh.” She set her jaw and reached for her worry stone, stroking her thumb over the smooth surface ten times before stating calmly, “This just requires a slight adjustment to my plan.”
