“Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,” dropping the keys in Ennis’s hand. He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream.”

“Tyler rounded the hood and opened the door. ‘What?’ he asked when she grinned at him. ‘You’ve got a slide-over-here-honey seat!’ His eyes crinkled with laughter. ‘Well, what are you doing all the way over there?”

“Emily swore and he was impressed; he’d never thought to string cocksuckingsonofabitch together in one sentence. He couldn’t help himself; the snort of laughter escaped before he could hold it in.”

“When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm?”