Rugged Hunter, Delicate Heiress
READING AGE 12+
The night I married a mountain hunter, I told him he smelled of sweat and could forget sharing my bed until he learned to bathe. I had just lost my family's fortune, my home, and the future I'd spent my life expecting. Cal Mercer had offered me a roof and a way to keep the last piece of my father's land out of a developer's hands. I accepted because every other choice came with a price I couldn't pay. But Cal wasn't the obedient, grateful husband I'd imagined, and the harder I tried to make our bargain feel like a rescue, the more I wondered what he had given up to make it. Was I his wife because he wanted me, or because I was the last thing standing between him and the land he loved?
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The original receipt arrived at the courthouse two days before the auction date.
I was in the lawyer's office when he opened the bank's sealed packet. The receipt showed that my father had paid the bank the full disputed amount. A second page recorded it as a suspense item, with no fees listed.
The bank's attorney agreed to a new ……
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