Chapter 17Steph God, was this trip ever going to end? Slumped against the window of the pick-up truck, Steph tried to doze, but the glass vibrated under her cheek, and every so often they hit an uneven spot in the road that made the whole damn thing jerk. It didn’t help that all around her conversation flowed animatedly, with Leo and Tobias gleefully teasing each other and Annika up front pestering the woman from the ranch about one thing or another. Gah! If Annika always came on that strongly it was no wonder she was single. Sure, the woman who picked them up at the airport was quite attractive, but so were a million others out there. Yet Annika seemed to immediately latch onto this Jesse, never mind that the ranch woman might not even like her own gender. Just because Jesse had short

