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Frank set the boy down as the children swarmed around him begging for attention. Many of them he had known since the day they were born. He slid out of his pack, and digging into one of its many pouches, pulled out several candy bars as Sarah stood back and watched. As he passed them around to his eager audience, he eyed her from time to time. The intensity of her gaze unsettled him. It had been years since a woman looked at him like this, and the end-result from that last time had been a painful lesson in placing too much trust in someone you gave your heart to. Compounding his unease was the growing awareness of her understated beauty. Until now, he had done his best to ignore her soft oval face and imploring eyes that were as blue as the Himalayan skies. But now, he saw the impossibi
