“We got married straight out of high school. I thought Julia was the most wonderful woman I’d ever met, but things swiftly went downhill.”
“Because you were in the Rangers?” Cady questioned.
Quinn shook his head, picking up his beer to sip from it before he continued. “I joined the Army two years out of high school. Back then, I thought I’d outgrown Garrison, and I wanted to see the world, be something more than a rancher. I didn’t want to be like my father, and his father before him. I had itchy feet, and a hankerin’ to do something with my life.” He glanced across at Cady, offering her a rueful smile. “I figured the best way of seeing the world was to join the services.” He turned his gaze towards the window, staring out past their reflections, his mind clearly on a distant time and pl
