Chapter Fifty One:
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STATEN KIRKLAND SAT in Quinn O’Grady’s kitchen for an hour, making several calls to his men. Just because he wasn’t there didn’t mean that work would stop on the ranch, but his mind didn’t seem to be fully in the game.
All he could think about was Quinn. Maybe while he waited at her place, she was getting the news she had cancer. She might be dying, and she’d find out all alone. He knew she’d take the news hard, but in her shy, quiet way she wouldn’t let anyone know. They’d think she was handling it well. They wouldn’t see that she was falling apart.
Finally, when he could think of no one else to pester, he walked to the barn and collected enough tools to put Quinn’s door back on. Now that he had other things to worry about, he realized what a fool he’d been to st
