Stonebrook Cottage (39 page)

Sam nodded. "Rain check?"

"Sure, although you're running out of places up here where you're welcome."

"You'll always be welcome here, Sam," Jim Haviland said.

Davey scowled at his friend. "That's what I said."

Whatever they said next, Kara was lost—her bullet wound and the medication and fatigue and the delirious feeling that came with knowing Sam Temple loved her, loving him as much as she did, all had her falling off her chair.

Davey Ahearn and Jim Haviland made a move for her, but it was Sam who got around to her first. Although she said she could walk just fine, he carried her out of the bar into the warm summer night and up the street to her family.

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STONEBROOK COTTAGE

Copyright © 2002 by Carla Neggers.

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