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Forty Two
It had been about a week after the gallery’s opening event and they were back on his ranch, once more. One afternoon when they had just returned from swimming, they heard a car coming up the drive. Kara glanced questioningly at him, but he seemed just as surprised before he glanced out the window and then frowned with confusion.
Kara was not sure if it was business and she was just about to turn and go to her room to allow him some privacy when there was a perfunctory knock on the door and Matthew opened it with much the same expression.
“Good Afternoon, we were told that we could find Kara Daniels here?”
She froze when she recognized the woman’s voice and she turned back to the door and stared. It was at that moment that her mother’s eyes turned to her. “Oh, my dear, you’ve become disabled!” She cried in horror before she rushed to her and pulled her against her chest with loud sobs.&
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