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It was one thing to look at plans, blueprints and topographical maps, but another completely to see the property in person. He had taken Darla’s word and the market value of the land as a basis for his decision to transform the game preserve into a timeshare. Not wanting to make the same mistake twice, he visited the property in Colorado. It reaffirmed his desire to own both Crystal Springs Farm and the JAR-C Ranch. Regardless, he was unable to convince Samantha Tanner and Alice Branson to sell. Through those events, and so many others that even now he didn’t understand how he had lost control of them, had brought him to stalking the Tanner residence, his economy vehicle with high mileage parked on a dirt road a half-mile away.
Ted Worthington spent a couple of hours sitting among the
