19 ZEKE Something in me wanted to annihilate Silverton. Pulverize him. I'd never been one to pick a fight. There had been plenty of times when some drunk dude in a bar got in my face, needed to prove something by going up against the town's mega mountain man, but those puny efforts were easier to squash than swinging an axe. And I'd taken out my rage with Silverton on Bunnie. That was part of it. There was also the fact that she was considering out-of-town job offers, as if whatever was between us were worth leaving. As if she didn't respect me enough to stay. I didn't have a fancy degree, hadn't lived around the world like she had. But I'd done all right for myself, and I couldn't remember a time when I hadn't loved her. The fact that she could just toss that all aside without tell

