Stake your claim ?” He made her sound like an acre of water rich land.
“You know,” he said. “He said. Let everyone in town see you are my woman.”
“I’m not any mans woman.”
“Not yet, but I will like you to think about being mine. he removed his hat; sherry guessed that meant he intended her to take him seriously. If you will be willing to run off and get married, then-“
“Then what?”
“Then we will be done with it. See, I don’t have the time or energy to waste on courting a woman.”
Sherry nodded slowly, all the while chewing on the inside of her cheek to keep from saying g something she will regret. So much for romance! So much for sipping champagne and feeding each other chocolate covered strawberries in the moonlight, a dandy sherry had carried with her for years. Or a romantic weeken
