Why should I mind? She drummed her fingertips against his knee. Because you got asked to play baseball, while I got a lecture on circumspection, Jezebels, and leading men into sin? Did you really? He managed to sound annoyed, fascinated, and amused all at once.Its not funny. Of course its not. He was quick to try and placate her. But we can do something about those lectures real quick. All you have to do is marry me.Coyote Bluff had too many secrets that werent hers to share. She couldnt put him in that position. He was a federal marshal. And shed seen what all the lies her father told had done to her mother. Shed died hating him.The last remnants of her earlier contentment vanished. I like my independence. Then I guess youll have to get used to the lectures, Sheriff Jezebel, he replied.
