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name?”
    “Zoe-Quinnlyn Starks. My friends call me either Quinn or Zo.”
    “What do you prefer?”
    “Zoe,” was her honest answer. “Mr. Collins…”
    “Dean.”
    “Dean,” the smooth silky feel of his name coming from her lips, as if her voice was like fresh honey, made him ache for more of her words, more of her delicious sounds that she made when she spoke, when she laughed, all of it. “Thank you.”
    “You’re welcome,” he told her. “I’ll bring some food up for you, and Guy brought your suitcase from your car so you can take a hot bath and relax some of those sore muscles I’m sure you have.”
    She nodded. “I am a little sore. And my head hurts.”
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    “You hit your head on the steering wheel. I think there must have been something wrong with your seatbelt because it didn’t do much to halt your forward motion. I’m having Jimmy take a look at that too while he works on your car. I had my vet look you over. He said you were fine.”
    Her eyebrows rose inquisitively. “The animal doctor looked me over?”
    He chuckled. “We’re far away from everything. You’ll notice that once you get a chance to go outside.”
    “I noticed while I was driving. There wasn’t a gas station, or anything else from the way I came.”
    “Well the road in front of you would have looked the same way for about another seventy miles.
    Your boyfriend must be worried,” he needed to know and it was the only way he could figure out how to find out without asking right out.
    “I don’t have a boyfriend. My mother just got married so she’s on her honeymoon. She won’t be worried about me anytime soon.” He heard the unspoken words in her voice. It didn’t seem as if she had anybody who would worry about her. She didn’t have any reason to hurry home and that made him think he should give her every reason to stay there with him. His mother had always told him he was too quick to fall in love. She had told him that the day he came home from his first day of high school declaring his love for Daisy. “She’s going to be my wife someday,” he had told his mother and she had simply laughed and told him that it probably wasn’t going to happen. She was so sure he would find somebody else to fall in love with between ninth grade and his senior year. But he hadn’t. He had fallen for Daisy from day one and he went after her. She didn’t put up much of a fight. He smiled just thinking about Daisy and how easy it was to convince her to be his girlfriend. Right after high school, before the ink dried on their diplomas, they were at the courthouse getting married. He knew at first sight, just like he knew with this woman, that what he felt could last a lifetime. He just wasn’t sure she would feel the same way.
    “Will your wife be angry that I’m in your bed?”
    “I’m not married. And how did you know this was my room?”
    She circled her finger around the room. “It smells like you. Spicy and warm,” she smiled. “It’s very manly. I like it.” She yawned. “I’m still tired.”
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    “Get a little more rest while I get some food for you. Then you’ll eat something because you’ve been in and out of it for a while now.”
    She nodded. “Thank you.”
    “You’re welcome.” He left her to the bed so she could rest and he could fix a plate for her. The men had already started eating outside on the patio, and of course they felt the need to give him those knowing looks the moment he started fixing the plate. He just grinned and shook his head.
    “She’s awake and I want her to eat something; okay.” He finished piling food onto the plate before Jasper took it from him and handed it to one of the men.
    “She is not going to eat that much,” she exclaimed before he could protest her actions. “David there can eat enough for ten horses, but that girl is not going to want all that food. Think smaller.”
    “How