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pulling away from the wall he’d been leaning against. “You don’t want her in the kitchen,that’s cool. There’s plenty of other things for her to do. And she’s not staying in the main house. She’s using the guest cottage. No worries. She’ll only be here for a short time, just until Lilly has the surgery and is back on her feet. She’ll be gone before you know it.” Shilah finished.
    Nate eyed him suspiciously, wondering at the swift change in attitude. Although he didn’t like her usingthe guest cottage, the place he had built and planned to live in before Angela left, it was a better alternative to her living in his house. Under his roof.
    Where he’d have easy access to her, night and day.
    The errant thought blew across his mind before he could stop it, irritating him further.
    â€œWhen you boys are done, dinner’s in the oven. I’m going out to take the men their food, then I’mgoing to lie down before supper,” Lilly interrupted before Nathan could speak.
    All three men turned to look at her, completely forgetting her presence in the room as they argued, they were so used to her being around.
    The emphasis she placed on calling them boys hadn’t been lost on any of them.
    â€œLet me help you with that, Ms. Lilly,” Shilah said first, and she nodded her head toward the largecovered dishes set on the counter. “Grab those.”
    â€œTruth be told, I could use a little help around here. That previous boy didn’t last longer than a frog in heat; didn’t know his butt from a hole in the ground and I ended up doing most of the work myself.” She lifted the last dish from the oven and turned to place it on the stove. “I told you that boy was more trouble then he was worth. Don’tknow why you didn’t hire that nice young woman from town like I told you to in the first place,” she finished, staring a hole in Nate.
    He felt all of ten years old, fighting the urge to duck his head in shame at the silent reprimand.
    Lilly was going to have knee surgery in a few months, and with the date soon to arrive and lots of work to do, Nate had hired the young man to help with householdchores, refusing to entertain the idea of hiring one of the local women from town at Lilly’s suggestion.
    He’d made no apologies for his “no woman hired” policy on the ranch, something everyone, including Lilly, had simply accepted as fact.
    But now, with Lilly’s silent reprimand, and the factthat he’d probably made an ass of himself not only to the woman, but to his brothers about her beingthere, he knew he’d overreacted.
    â€œYou’d do well to give this one a chance, Nate. She actually looks like she understands the value of hard work. And sacrifice,” she said, and after one more considering look added, “something you and your brothers know too well. Think about it before you throw her away.” With that she turned and gathered the food, Shilah and Holt helping her, leaving Nate feelinglike an idiot.
    Now, as he drove into town, the entire situation was giving him a migraine he could damn well do without.
    He floored the accelerator on his truck just as he was passing a cop, cursing when, after a glance in his rearview mirror, he caught sight of the cop peeling out from the side of the road and the accompanying flash of red lights.

Chapter 5
    W hen Althea’s radio alarm blared to life she woke up with a start, her heart thumping against her rib cage as the lyrics to the old Clash song “Should I Stay or Should I Go” blared loudly from the small speakers.
    With a groan she slapped a hand over the knob, beating the alarm into silent submission.
    â€œShould I stay or should I go?” She asked the question out loud, thinking howappropriate the lyrics to the song were in her current situation.
    The light peeking through the wide slatted blinds cast a beautiful amber glow over