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here, just like everybody else does. I mean, I went to school, I have a degree in accounting but of course, I spent plenty of time waiting tables over the years. I’m not too proud to work in the kitchen or help out in other ways around the house.”
                  “Well, yes, but I thought I would leave it to you to determine what your strengths are that you bring to the ranch. Of course, there’s also the matter of my son…” Miranda immediately felt her face heat, a pink blush creeping up her neck from her chest. She was not about to discuss what she could be doing for Casey with his father. “…this wasn’t entirely his idea. I take that back. This was not at all his idea. He is opposed to marrying a stranger but mostly, it is because he doesn’t think he has the time for a wife and a family. He will come around, I promise you.”
                  “And if he doesn’t?” Miranda asked thoughtfully, ashamed at the thought that her future husband might reject her so coldly that she could barely bring herself to ask.
                  “Well, if that’s the case, I would provide you with money for travel back to anywhere you wished to go, as well as compensate you for the wages you would have earned if you hadn’t come out here. Of course, I have five other sons to choose from!” the man said with a laugh. “Surely one of them would be honored to have a smart, beautiful girl like you as his bride!”
                  Somehow, that suggestion only made Miranda grow even more morose. The thought of being passed from brother to brother until one of them was finally unwittingly saddled with her made the bile rise up in her throat. Damn Mike for putting her in this situation! Back in Newark, she had a good thing going, even if it wasn’t perfect. Then she had to go and meet Mike and ruin what little good was happening in her life. Here, she had to make amends and hope her would-be fiancé so much as spoke to her.
                  “Now, let me be the one to ask you a few questions,” Bernard began, lacing his fingers on top of his desk and staring at the wedding ring he still wore. “For instance, what makes a beautiful, educated, articulate girl like you go looking for a cowboy on the Internet?”
                  Miranda took a deep breath, knowing that she would have had to answer this question at some point sooner or later. “It really started out as a joke, if that’s not too harsh a thing to say. My little sister...”
                  “Gracie, was it?” Bernard asked.
                  “Yes, after George Burns’ wife, Gracie Allen. Anyway, she came to live with me after my mom died last year. She didn’t have anywhere else to go, and believe me, I looked!”
                  “You two don’t get along?” he asked, his eyebrows coming together in concern.
                  “Oh, no! Nothing like that! But with the age difference, I never really knew her that well and after losing our dad in Afghanistan when she was a toddler and then losing our mom last year, the last thing she needed was to be uprooted from her home and forced to sleep on the couch of my apartment. I’m really sorry to say it, but she’s been on that couch this whole time.” Now was probably not the time to bring up Mike’s attempts at hurting Gracie, or the possibly criminal way Miranda had handled the situation.
                  “But how did she have a hand in you agreeing to marry my son?”
                  “Oh, that. To say that Gracie didn’t like my boyfriend at the time is putting it mildly. And she’s completely right, he was horrible and I’m glad to be rid of him. One day, she was just goofing off on the Internet and signed me up for this dating site, halfway pretending that maybe she could show me the really good, quality guys out there. Next thing you know, I was