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Probably nothing. Probably his conscience was working overtime. After all, there had been no further attempts, just that one freak ambush that, fortunately, had been waylaid by Cameron's quixotic rescue. Truth to tell, although he was damned happy to be alive, he wasn't sorry the ambush had happened. If it hadn't, he wouldn't have met Drew Cameron.

He smiled at the thought of the Scotsman. Kirby had made few friends in the last twenty-five years—maybe because he'd once used such damned poor judgment in choosing companions, maybe because he was afraid of losing those he might choose. Regardless of the cause, he'd held himself aloof from other men. But something about Drew Cameron made him discard his ordinary caution.

Guts, for example. Plain, old-fashioned guts. The man had taken on three gunmen for a stranger's sake. But there was much more to the Scotsman. He was intelligent, well-read, articulate, and charming. Usually Kirby was suspicious of charm; he'd seen it used to his disadvantage—and almost ruin—once before, but he could find no evil in the Scotsman, only a barrenness that matched Kirby's own.

Drew hid his loneliness well under a smile, a wink, and a joke. But Kirby often wondered what turned a Scottish lord into a wanderer, a man who would accept a pittance for backbreaking labor.

Kirby sighed. His friendship with Cameron scared his nephews. They had always expected to take over his spread and now they sensed a challenge to that natural assumption. That Drew Cameron wanted no part of it would never occur to them.

What
did
occur to Kirby was that the competition might be good for his nephews. He didn't want to think that he was using a man who had saved his life.

So he thought of Laura instead. Pretty Laura whom he could never have.

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About the Author

Patricia Potter is a
USA Today
–bestselling author of more than fifty romantic novels. A seven-time RITA Award finalist and three-time Maggie Award winner, she was named Storyteller of the Year by
Romantic Times
and received the magazine's Career Achievement Award for Western Romance. Potter is a past board member and president of Romance Writers of America. Prior to becoming a fiction author, she was a reporter for the
Atlanta Journal
and the president of a public relations firm in Atlanta. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Copyright © 1996 by Patricia Potter

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