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She glanced at Bo threading ropes through thethe tie-down She kept backing--and just about walked slam into the side of the Suburban Ah, for Pete’s sake She grabbed for the truck handle

Her eyes met Chuck’s as he slid behind the wheel He looked froh his hazel eyes before they blanked

Was her attraction to Bo that obvious, even when she was at her prickly best? What a wake-up call She refused to be the kind of wo out over soet to know more about Bo beyond just the charmer flyboy facade

Then this obnoxious obsession with s the seat belt down and around her, Paige set her eyes forward on the overlarge red barn in the distance by the pastures and bunkhouses She definitely needed to learn --and please, God, let hie fantasies or even single-wohter to raise, a life to rebuild and an ailing horse to patch

Plopping onto the swing, Kirstie scuffed her red tennis shoe through the sand and wondered if she could get aith telling the school nurse she was sick Again

Then et her since her mama was off with him Bo Yuck But Uncle Seth could drive the car instead of the truck--and he would call Moood

Might work

Except the school nurse was getting kinda smart about how ot a paper cup of water and a pass back to class

A pack of shouting kids playing tag ran past Kirstie tugged the chains and jerked the swing into ot to ride around in the plane all day while she was stuck at school

She puher until she could just about see over the roof of the school She was the one who liked airplanes, not herMaybe she would hurl on Bo’s boots, too, and then he wouldn’t want to be their pilot anymore

Except she really didn’t want her o away and her daddy to coher Kirstie alhter to the chains, she looked back over her shoulder

"Hello, Kirstie Adella" It was the ain

"What are you doing here?" She stopped pu out at school, which ain" He had one of those visitor passes clipped on that people picked up at the office

Her swish took her closer and she double-checked Yep, it was shaped like an apple and it said Visitor She got a little less scared and started swinging again It must be okay for him to be around Theher

Like her daddy used to do "What did you and my daddy do around here when you was kids?"

"Well, ent to school together, although we liked the s And ent to the county fair and ate lots of candy apples"

"My daddy did like candy apples, lots Caramel ones, too"

"We would ride the roller coaster over and over again"

"I like roller coasters" And so did her dad, even if she didn’t know that before All thisbad et shots like all the kids at school said He couldn’t be

’Cause if he hat did that , the teacher o inside and then she couldn’t talk to the guy with bushy eyebrows anymore She blinked back her tears and kept her face forward so she could pretend her dad was pushing her

"What’s yourtoday?"

She wanted to talk about her father, not her "

"At the house?"

"Nuh-uh She’s flyin’ today"

"So your Uncle Vic’s at the house?"

Okay, she could kinda pretend these were questions her dad would ask "Nope He’s gotta fix a cow or bull or soonna take care of me today"

"You don’t seem happy about that"

"He’s no fun since he can’t play ball or nothing He just sits in front of the TV with his foot up while he ain It wasn’t very nice to bad-et all my homework done, we’ll drive to McDonald’s for supper"

"He can drive with his busted foot?"

"Yep As long as he takes the car and not the truck ’cause the car doesn’t have a--" Shewas in the truck, then grabbed hold of the chain again real quick

"I get what you mean"

"Yeah"