Sassy nodded. “I’m sorry for him,” she said. “I wish he’d learned his lesson the last time, in Wyoming. I guess when you do bad things for a long time, you just keep doing them.”
“Repeat offenders repeat, sometimes,” Graves replied solemnly. “But he’s off the street, where he won’t be hurting other young women.” He pursed his lips. “I also wanted to thank you for the gift you brought back from Mexico. But I’m curious.”
“About what?” she asked.
“How did you know I could play a flute?”
Her eyebrows arched. “You can?” she asked, surprised.
He chuckled. “Maybe she reads minds,” he told John. “Better take good care of her. A woman with that rare gift is worth rubies.”
“You’re telling me,” John replied, smiling down at his wife.
“I’ll get back to town. Take care.”
“You, too,” Sassy said.
He sauntered out to his truck. John turned to Sassy with pursed lips. “So you can read minds, can you?” He leaned his forehead down against hers and linked his hands behind her. “Think you can tell me what I’m thinking right now?” he teased.
He laughed, picked her up, and stalked down the hall carrying her. She held on tight. Some men’s minds, she thought wickedly, weren’t all that difficult to read after all!
ISBN: 978-1-4268-3134-8
DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
First North American Publication 2009.
Copyright © 2009 by Diana Palmer.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Copyright
Contents
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN