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happy with her. Sassy and John found time to visit regularly. They
were like lovebirds, though. People rarely saw one without the
other. Sassy mused that it was like they were joined at the hip.
John grinned and kissed her for that. It was, indeed, he said
happily.
One afternoon, John walked in the back door with Chief Graves,
who was grinning from ear to ear.
"We have company," John told her, pausing to kiss her warmly
and pull her close at his side. "He has news."
"I thought you'd like to know that Mr. Tarleton got five years," he
said pleasantly. "They took him away last Friday. He's appealing,
of course, but it won't help. He was recorded on DVD agreeing to
the terms of the plea bargain. I told you that judge hated sexual
assault cases."
Sassy nodded. "I'm sorry for him," she said. "I wish he'd learned
his lesson the last time, in Wyoming. I guess when you do bad
things for a long time, you just keep doing them."
"Repeat offenders repeat, sometimes," Graves replied solemnly.
"But he's off the street, where he won't be hurting other young
women." He pursed his lips. "I also wanted to thank you for the
gift you brought back from Mexico. But I'm curious."
"About what?" she asked.
"How did you know I could play a flute?"
Her eyebrows arched. "You can?" she asked, surprised.
He chuckled. "Maybe she reads minds," he told John. "Better take
good care of her. A woman with that rare gift is worth rubies."
"You're telling me," John replied, smiling down at his wife.
"I'll get back to town. Take care."
"You, too," Sassy said.
He sauntered out to his truck. John turned to Sassy with pursed
lips. "So you can read minds, can you?" He leaned his forehead
down against hers and linked his hands behind her. "Think you
can tell me what I'm thinking right now?" he teased.
She reached up and whispered in his ear, grinning.
He laughed, picked her up, and stalked down the hall carrying
her. She held on tight. Some men's minds, she thought wickedly,
weren't all that difficult to read after all!
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