for that one. You won’t know how or when but I will get you back. I can’t let you get away with hitting on me in front of the guys. I have an image to uphold.” “Turk don’t you mean you have your pride to uphold. You can’t let a woman get away with hitting on you.” “Look Macy you have got to loosen up if you are ever going to have a chance in Texas. You just have to be a little nicer and stop worrying so much about someone trying to get fresh with you. Don’t you worry there are plenty of women out here that would be happy to let a man put his hands on them. So they don’t have to sneak a feel off you. Out here we are different. We don’t think or act like those guys in Boston. By the way I’m sorry I called you a bitch. I just l et my temper get away from me. I get mad sometimes and I say things I don’t really mean to say.” “Well you are not the first guy that ever called me a bitch.” He smiled at her while he thought, “I bet every man she has gone out with ends up calling her a bitch.” Macy looked into his eyes. “I’m sorry I’ll try to settle down.” She almost choked on her apology. She really didn’t think she should be the one apologizing anyway. “Listen I have a boyfriend in Boston. As soon as we get back to the ranch I am going to get out of your hair. I’ll go back to him and you will never have to see me again. I don’t know what your mother has up her sleeve but I want no part of it. So you don’t have to worry about me anymore. I won’t be back.” He looked at her and thought to himself, “If she has such a good thing with this guy in Boston, what is she doing out here to start with?” Macy dropped back and continued riding with Megan. “Macy did you apologize to him?” “Yes and I think he accepted it. At least he got over being mad at me anyway except for hitting him in the head. He says he is going to get me back for that. I don’t know whether to turn around and take off for the ranch or not. Do you think he is really going to do something to me? ”Macy I told you I would look after you and I will. If he tries to do anything to you I will be in his face before he can.” “Megan you are going to have to help me get along with him. Turk is totally different from anyone I have been around and I just don’t like him.” “Well , all you have to do is relax and go with the flow. He likes to be the boss and he doesn’t like to be bossed around by anyone male or female.” “Well I think I made him happy. I told him as soon as we got back to the ranch I was going to leave and he would never see me again. That brought a smile on his face.” “That might make him happy but it won’t make me or Mom happy. We want you to stay out here a while and have some fun. We know you have been having a hard time over losing your parents and we are just trying to make it a little easier for you. We had no idea that Turk was going to act like he has been acting toward you. You must have really pushed the wrong buttons when you two first met. Macy fell silent while the thoughts of what she had heard from the girls in college about domineering men they had gone with. She knew she wasn’t cut out to do something like that. Macy knew one thing for certain. She wasn’t going to let a man dominate her, especially a cowboy with careless hands. She wanted the finer things of life, not stuck on a ranch in the middle of hell with a man that thought he was some kind of king. Macy had to go to the bathroom all of a sudden. “Megan what do you do when you have to go to the bathroom out here?” “Go tell Turk that you have to go. He’ll stop and wait on you.” “You think he will? He acts like he would rather just ride off and leave me behind.” “No go up there and tell him. If he won’t wait on you I will. I won’t let you be left out here alone.” Macy rode up to Turk again and said, “Turk can we stop somewhere? I