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“You’ve turned this house into a home, P. J. ”

“It was a home when I got here. ”

He shook his head. “Nope. Not even close,” he said. “How do you do it?”

Shyly she said, “I suppose it’s just because I’m a woman. ”

She’d meant the remark in the most innocent way. But the feelings it generated in him went from touch-and-go to downright dangerous.

“It’s easier for women,” she said. “We’re naturally nesters. We pull in a bit of this, a smidgen of that, and—” she threw her arm out in a circular motion “—voilà. A building becomes a home. ”

And when she left at the end of the summer, the nest would go back to being just bits of this and that with no one to breathe life and vitality and warmth into it. This home would be a ranch again. And he’d be a footloose cowboy once more.

Isn’t that what he’d always wanted?

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The Way to a Cowboy’s Heart

Teresa Southwick

For my brother Dan Boyle and his wife, Katie.