In the days to follow, the sheriff thought of all kinds of reasons to be out at South Wind, but everyone knew he was there just to see Sable. His visits slowly turned into a courtship that lasted only a few weeks, and the moment her marriage to Storm had been annulled, their marriage plans were set.
“Look what I’ve got here,” the sheriff said as he walked up to Storm.
Storm looked down at the papers. “It looks like a lot of legal mumbo jumbo.”
“It is. The annulment papers finally came through, and the deed to your property is all made out. You can leave it like it is, or there’s a place here to take on co-owners if you want. You know, someone to invest in the property and then when it starts payin’ off, they get their share, like the mines do.”
“That’s interesting.”
“Yeah. The bigger
