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I came here with my priorities straight: protect my daughter, get the job done, and leave... Then I met my boss.

Steven Harlow runs the biggest ranch in Whitetail Falls like it’s still under military command: precise, relentless, impossible to ignore. Working beside him through calving season means early mornings, and far too many moments where the space between us feels smaller than it should.

There’s gray in his beard, experience in every movement, and a way he looks at me like the s...
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I came here with my priorities straight: protect my daughter, get the job done, and leave... Then I met my boss.

Steven Harlow runs the biggest ranch in Whitetail Falls like it’s still under military command: precise, relentless, impossible to ignore. Working beside him through calving season means early mornings, and far too many moments where the space between us feels smaller than it should.

There’s gray in his beard, experience in every movement, and a way he looks at me like the sixteen years between us don’t matter, not even a little.

I told myself this was just a fresh start. Nothing more. But my daughter? She took one look around and decided we were already home. And now I’m starting to wonder if she’s right.

Because how do I walk away when everything I came here searching for is already waiting at the barn door?
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