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Audra insisted Cal sit in front with Gale—“Because you have long legs,”—while she took the back seat. “And any talk about Hank and Deb Quinlan is off the table. Got it?”
“Got it,” both men replied as they took off.
“Are you sure you want to go to the mountains, Audra?” Cal asked. “We could head north to Boulder or south to Colorado Springs so you can get a better idea about the state, since you might decide to move here.”
“I’d rather the mountains. I want to be somewhere away from everything. Somewhere where I don’t have to think about anything but how beautiful and peaceful life can be.”
Cal glanced at Gale in question, getting a brief shrug in reply. “All right, then. There’s a town called Silver Plume that fits those parameters,” Cal told her. “Tiny, tucked into the hills s
