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town’s dying and you’re mourning the loss of the women. That’s so you, Mac.”
    â€œWhat can I say? I consider women to be one of the benefits of being born a man.”
    â€œSix in the past four years?” Vince had been drunk, but not too drunk to be floored by that number.
    â€œI actually fudged on that.”
    â€œThere were
more
? Holy shit, Mac.”
    â€œNo, fewer. In two cases, we broke up and then we got back together later on. I counted them both twice, because it seemed almost like two separate affairs since each time I saw someone else in between.”
    â€œIt’s a wonder you can keep them straight, or that you get anything else done.”
    â€œI have a healthy sex drive, that’s all. Besides, you admitted to having three different women, so technically I’m only one up on you.”
    Vince realized that made some kind of crazy sense. “Guess so.”
    â€œPlus, as I recall, you had quite the time with the ladies of Bickford, yourself. When I walked into Sadie’s and Georgie was there, I wondered if she was one of the reasons you wanted to come back here this weekend.”
    Bull’s-eye. But Vince wasn’t about to admit that he’d never forgotten Georgie. “Not really. I figured she’d be married with a couple of kids by now.”
    â€œInstead she’s single and cuter than ever.”
    Vince wouldn’t have used the word
cute
to describe Georgie. Beautiful and sexy, yes. A maddening challenge, definitely. But certainly not
cute.
    â€œYou don’t agree?” Mac glanced over at him. “I always pegged her as your type.”
    â€œWell, she’s not. And more to the point, I’m not hers, either.”
    Mac’s chuckle was followed by a soft groan of pain. “Remind me not to laugh. It hurts. But let the record show that you’re still hung up on Georgie and frustrated by her lack of interest.”
    â€œAm not.”
    â€œYes, you are. I’m sure this isn’t news to you, but insisting on this roundup isn’t helping your cause any. I’m ready to call it quits, and Travis could be talked out of it, so why not forget the whole thing? You’d stand a much better chance with her if you abandoned this so-called quest.”
    Vince’s temples throbbed, but he’d had a hangover before, and it would be gone eventually. “You don’t have to go if you don’t want to. But with or without you and Travis, I’m heading out there tomorrow morning with a rope and a plan.”
    Mac blew out a breath. “Then I’ll go with you, if for no other reason than to keep you from making an ass of yourself.”
    Too late.
But Vince kept that thought under his hat.
    *   *   *
    Georgie opened the store as usual at nine, and once she’d unlocked the doors and turned on the cash register, she surrendered to the impulse that had nagged her ever since waking up. She called Ed’s stable. “Vince Durant rented three of your horses last night for a trail ride he was taking with his friends,” she said. “Did they get off okay?”
Please say no.
    â€œTurns out they didn’t go.”
    Georgie did a quick fist pump. Then she remembered that Ed might have been affected financially by the cancellation. “I’m sorry if you lost money, Ed.”
    â€œActually, I didn’t. Vince and Mac walked down here first thing and gave me the whole amount in cash. Said it was the least they could do. Then they helped me unsaddle the horses. They were real sorry about making me saddle them for nothing, so I gave them a discount for tomorrow morning, same time.”
    â€œThat was nice of you.” Damn it. They weren’t giving up. She’d so hoped for that.
    â€œCan’t see any reason not to, with the generosity they showed me today. We talked about the Double J, and what a shame it was that it shut down, and then the fire.