Chapter 27 “What are we going to do today?” Suzie Ames eagerly asked Joe. She really liked the big gentle black guy. He was so hot! She’d never even thought about anyone but white guys in those terms. Her parents would have hissies if she brought a black guy home. Now that thought made her grin. Yet here, after three weeks on the Sinclair Ranch, when she’d thought she’d never look or think of a man in those terms ever again, she was, and it was a black guy. “Same as yesterday,” he said. “Some weights, some karate, and some shooting.” Suzie had to swallow a sigh at the heat his warm smile kindled in her belly…a complete, whole belly, with no tubes running out and no bag hanging from her waistband. A miracle, the doctors said, but Suzie wondered. She looked across the table at Santee, a

