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little bit, being part one myself.” She took a deep breath. “What do you think?”
    “I think it’s a solid idea, but have you thought out the financial side? The space it will take to handle these animals? The permits and responsibility?”
    “Yes. I know I’ll have to start out small and build up. Brady is loaded, and he tells me it’s my money too. We’ll find out how much he really means that.” She laughed. “As far as the space? I bought the few hundred acres next to Brady’s property.”
    “The property he’s been fuming over not getting?” Landon smirked.
    “Yep.”
    “How did you manage that?”
    “With the money from this semester of college that I won’t be attending and a fund raiser I put up on the Internet over a year ago. People like animals. I’ve raised a lot of money. More than enough for permits and start-up.”
    “I’m impressed.”
    “Why? Because I’m a girl-child?” She crossed her arms over her chest.
    “No. I know you’re smart, and I know you are a full grown woman. I just didn’t see it coming, and I’m impressed how well thought out your whole plan is. I’m sure Brady will be impressed, too. I can’t imagine he won’t be proud of you.”
    “I don’t know. He’s going to be pissed that I dropped out of college. He didn’t want me to go at first, but I insisted. Now, I’m not finishing. A lot of money is going to waste.” She felt guilty about that, but it couldn’t be helped.
    “I’m not sure I agree that it was money gone to waste. Didn’t you take business classes?”
    “Yes. I took a wide variety of classes because I couldn’t settle on a major.”
    “Then won’t that knowledge help you with the shelter?”
    She tipped her head to the side and looked at him. “Yeah. I guess it will. You think I’m crazy, don’t you?”
    He chuckled. “No, I don’t. If having the shelter is what would truly make you happy, I don’t see how Brady can be upset.”
    “If you believe that maybe you should take those words to heart.” She raised one brow at him.
    Something slammed into the back of the truck before he could answer.
    “Shit!” Landon bellowed while trying to right them from a sideways skid.
    She gripped the door handle with one hand, while tugging at the seatbelt with the other to make sure it was tight. When she saw that Landon had not put his seatbelt on, something unusual for him, her already hammering heartbeat thumped even harder.
    Before he could right the truck, they were hit again. She caught a glimpse of the semi that was ramming them in the side mirror. It was the two assholes that had harassed her earlier from the truck stop. When the semi clipped their truck again and sent them careening toward the shoulder of the highway, the scream she’d been trying to keep from escaping screeched out of her.
    The impact of whatever they hit stole the breath from her lungs, and black dots danced in front of her eyes before she passed out.

Chapter Four
    K rista gasped when she came to. Her shoulder hurt from hitting the door, and her body ached. Other than that, she was fine. Then she remembered Landon, and her stomach clenched. “Landon! Are you...”
    He wasn’t in the driver’s seat. She looked around. He wasn’t in the truck at all. That’s when she noticed the driver’s side window was broken. Her heart sank at the thought of him being hurt.
    She wrestled with the seatbelt, trying to get it unfastened, and when it finally gave, she flung the door open and slid out, landing in two feet of snow. The back end of the truck had struck a tree, and the tire looked slightly bent, but she didn’t care about any of that right now.
    Struggling around to the front of the truck, the sight that greeted her sent a brand new rush of adrenaline through her veins.  Lying in the snow, face down, about thirty feet away, was Landon. She hurried to him and pushed him onto his back. His clothes were soaked, his skin was pale, and a small gash on his forehead