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"Okay, we'll drop it for now. Have you made any calls yet?" He asked.
"No, I'll need to reach my aunt, and my girlfriend, the one that's meeting me at the Dude Ranch. But it's long distance unless you have a cell phone."
"Your aunt isn't home, as I said, and what's this about a Dude Ranch?"
"Oh, I guess I didn't tell you. Since I've been stranded and your housekeeper told me all about the Dude Ranch not far from here, I called for a reservation. For me and my friend."
He still wasn't following her train of thought. "A Dude Ranch? And exactly what are you going to do at this…Dude Ranch?"
"Take pictures. It's perfect."
"You're going to take pictures at a Dude Ranch?" he queried still not able to put it all together so it made sense.
"Yes, isn't that exciting?" When he didn't respond, she explained. "Well, I borrowed your phone and called the editor of one of the magazines I've worked for. They sounded excited about the idea of doing a layout for them. A nature layout."
"And just what are you going to photograph?"
"Animals, nature."
"Oh!" he nodded now, understanding. "There's a cell phone in my bedroom, on the night stand, but I guess you've already found that. You make your calls, while I see what Mrs. Johnson left us for supper." He smiled at her.
It was the first sign all day that he wasn't upset with her. She felt pleased and more than a little pulled to that smile.
"Thanks," she called after him. "You've been very kind."
He smiled again and left.
Savannah sighed heavily, knowing she was going to miss him the minute she left his beautiful home, but that it was inevitable too. She was stuck here for a night or two, but then it would be over and she'd be gone. That thought left a very dull feeling in her heart. Why couldn't she stay in Junction? What was to stop her?
Good sense. No use pursuing a man who had absolutely no intention of getting married, and said so. But why? Why did he feel that way? Had he been through some painful experience, or was he just a male chauvinist?
Darn it, she didn't need to stay here. She was too attracted to Ben Hogg.
And turnabout was fair play, he didn't trust her any more than she trusted him.
She had just finished talking with Janet on the phone when the Sheriff came in with a tray full of food. He set it in front of her, and then returned to the kitchen.
When he joined her a few minutes later, he had his own tray and sat in the chair by the bed.
"You shouldn't have gone to so much trouble," she exclaimed, adjusting her pillows so she could sit up.
"No trouble for me, Mrs. Johnson did all the work," he said and smiled.
Dear God, that smile!
"I didn't have to be waited on, you know."
He eyed her before biting into his pork chop.
"No problem."
"I'm not very hungry," she protested. He probably already sized her up as totally incapable. A ditz. Maybe she was!
"You should eat though. Food always gives a person a better disposition."
"Look you've been very kind. But, you don't have to take care of me. I'm a big girl."
He smiled. "I don't like to eat alone."
