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her parents.
    Knowing she would spend more reflective moments over the next few weeks, and not solve all her problems in one shot, she got up from the chair and decided to get dressed and go to town, get groceries, maybe pick up some lunch. Leave the thinking for later. Maybe she would run into Logan.
                  Kassey watched as Abby drove past the ranch house, on her way into town. She had stopped in to get direction to Wal-Mart and Kassey’s opinion of the woman had gone up a notch. She couldn’t be too snobby if she was willing to go to Wally World.
                  “You can come out now Logan.” Kassey called out.
    A door opened behind her, the one that led to the main house, and Logan stepped out. He walked into the office and noticed Ben and Jake lounging on the sofa.
                  “Don’t ya’ll have some work to do?” Logan asked, frowning at them.
                  “Just stopped in to see how our guest is doing.” Ben replied, unfolding his tall frame from the sofa. He was as tall as Logan, but looked completely the opposite. He had blonde hair the sun had bleached platinum and his blue eyes were like chips of ice that only warmed up when he smiled, which he did often. Ben found humor in every situation. He was built like a bear, but didn’t have an ounce of fat on him. His face resembled that of a professional boxer, complete with crooked nose. He and Kassey were married, and had come to work on the ranch with Logan when he had first bought it 10 years ago, when a man could still afford to buy a working ranch in Montana.
    “Kinda pretty guest, wouldn’t you say Jake?” Ben asked, looking down at the skinny kid still sitting on the sofa. Jake blushed. Ben laughed and reached down to punch him in the arm.
    “Well, let’s have a talk about the guest, ok?” Logan said as he sat down at his desk. He had to get out of the office soon, and run some fences, anything to get outside, but first he needed to put his employees in their place. Hell, they were more like family than anything.
    “First off, can we not refer to her as ‘the likes of you’ anymore? And try to treat her with some respect, instead of thinking she’s a hopeless princess?” Logan started out, first looking at Ben then at Kassey.
    Ben had the good grace to look at his toes, and Kassey found something interesting in a corner to look at.
    “We’ve treated her with nothing but derision since she came in here.” He said, “Including me.”
    “I was very nice when she came in here asking for directions to Wal-Mart, you know that. At least you should, you were listening at the door.” Kassey replied, looking disgruntled.
    “I was not listening at the door.”
    “You sure were, I saw you open it a crack then shut it. What, you didn’t want to come in here with her in the room? Kassey told me you’re sweet on her.” Ben countered, laughing.
    “I am not sweet on her because she’s nowhere near my league. I get the feeling from her that she’s out here, getting over a bad divorce.” Logan replied, pointing a finger at Ben. This was going in a direction he did not want to go in.
    “Yeah and what’s up with that? A divorced woman coming out here by herself? No husband, no kids, and Kassey said she’s booked the cabin for two weeks for only one person, no friends joining her. Something smells funny to me, and it ain’t Jake’s boots.” Ben shot back, nudging Jake’s foot with one of his.
                  “That is kinda unusual” Jake finally spoke.
      “Well, whatever, just try to treat her with some respect from now on. I’m going to invite her up for dinner to the house tonight. Maybe we can show her that we’re not all rude jackasses.”
    “Dinner at the house? Why Logan, you haven’t invited any of our guest over for dinner before. Why the change of heart?” Kassey asked, batting her eyes at him. Logan took a deep breath before answering, or else