The Cowboy and the Lady (21 page)

She turned. “I always have, you know,” she whispered.

He caught her up against him and kissed her again, his mouth warm and slow and achingly thorough. At the window, inside the ballroom, a silver-haired lady was smiling happily, already working out the arrangements for the first christening in her mind.

ISBN-13: 9781460375495

THE COWBOY AND THE LADY

Copyright © 1982 by Diana Palmer

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