Big Sky Seduction. Daire Denis St.

what he was going to say, he slowed down.

      “Thank you.”

      “No problem.”

      Gloria stared out the passenger window, trying to think of something to say to fill the awkward silence. Her brain played over all kinds of possibilities except none of them were appropriate: Do you have a girlfriend? Do you still think about me? Why didn’t you call? She finally settled on the first appropriate thing that popped into her head. “So why are you selling your ranch?”

      Without taking his eyes off the road, he said. “It’s not mine.”

      Had she misheard before? “I thought you said it was yours.”

      “It was my friend’s. When he passed, he left it to me.”

      “Your friend left you his ranch?” Gloria turned in her seat. “Wow. You must have been very good friends.”