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Iris hit Monty in the stomach as hard as she could.
"What did you mean by that?" he grunted in astonishment.
"I don't want you making love to me when it makes you so miserable." Iris jerked the bedroll from her shoulders and struggled to her feet. "My father said you should always put a dumb animal out of its misery."
Monty jumped to his feet. Iris tried to run, but her treacherous legs collapsed under her.
"Monty Randolph, don't you lay a finger on me." Iris dragged herself into a sitting position as he towered over her.
"Not after you had the gall to say you didn't like kissing me and hoped you'd soon recover from the desire." She couldn't tell whether he was madder at her or himself.
"I didn't-"
"If I knew how to use that gun of yours, I'd shoot you with it."
A TARNISHED PAST: Rough and ready as any of the Randolph boys, Monty bristled under his eldest brother's tight rein. All he wanted to do was light out from Texas for a new beginning.
But a spirited beauty was hot on his trail, bringing with her a blazing passion he couldn't deny and painful memories he couldn't forget. . .
SHINING FUTURE: An orphan with nothing to her name except a herd of cattle, Iris Richmond had to get her livestock to Wyoming's open ranges before rustlers wiped her out.
As luck would have it, Monty was heading that way, but the bullheaded wrangler flat out refused to help her. Never one to take no for an answer, Iris saddled up to coax, rope, and tame the ornery cowboy she'd always desired.
