Nicole Helm - Wyoming Cowboy Justice

“Turn here,” Grady instructed, gesturing toward a barely visible turn off the highway. Laurel nodded and drove her car through a canopy of green and gold, leaves and pine, until they reached the gate.

“You can walk from here,” she said primly.

Something about her prim always made him grin. “A polite woman drops her man off at the door.”

“Consider me impolite and you very much not my man.”

Grady pushed the car door open and stepped out. “I’ll put a few feelers out tonight at Rightful Claim, let you know what I come up with.”

She nodded, all business. “I’m going over to the mining company to talk to Jason’s boss and any coworkers he might have been friendly with. I’ll let you know if I’ve got a specific lead I want you to listen for.”

“Look at that, Deputy, we’re acting like partners already.”

She rolled her eyes. “We’ll be lucky if we don’t kill each other.”

The grin that had never fully evaporated spread across his face. “Funny, killing each other isn’t what I’m worried about.”

Her eyebrows drew together, all adorable, innocent confusion. Oh, to be as sweet and rule-abiding as his deputy princess.

“You just think on that, and we’ll be in touch.” He closed the door and started walking toward the old homestead. The wind was cold, but he didn’t mind. It was a good kind of cold. A thinking cold. And he needed to get his head in the thinking game. The keeping-Clint-out-of-trouble game.

When Laurel’s car didn’t immediately turn around and drive away, he chuckled. He kept walking, but he waited for what he knew would come. Because deputy princess didn’t know when to quit.

He supposed that was fair. Neither did he.

“I will never sleep with you, Grady Carson,” she shouted through her open driver’s side window.

He just raised a hand in salute. He didn’t think of “never” so much as a challenge as he considered it a curse. And there were already plenty of Carson and Delaney curses in the air.

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