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chest?”
    Taylor
paused and turned to face her. “How many of me do you see?”
    “Two?”
She licked her lips. “Yeah, both of you look grumpy.”
    “Then
how the hell would you know which grump to doctor?”
    “Oh.”
She grinned. “I suppose I could treat both of you.”
    Taylor
muttered and went back to examining the ragged and tangled body of the
aircraft. “It’s still too hot. I can’t get close enough to drag anything out.”
He glanced at the darkening sky. “Not yet. Wait a little longer.”
    “Are
you talking to the sky?”
    “The
clouds.”
    “So
what are they saying back to you?”
    He
flung her a fulminating glare. “You aren’t funny, you know.”
    “What
are we going to do now?”
    Taylor
whipped around. “Jesus, don’t creep up behind me like that! I have a buck knife
in one of my duffle bags. I’m going to cut some vines and broad leaves and
build us a shelter for the night.”
    “Oh.
You hunt?”
    Taylor
curled his top lip. “Believe it or not, sweetheart, I wasn’t always a cripple.
I had a life before the accident. A normal one. I jogged, hunted, fished,
camped, and fucked, all the things males do as a rule.”
    Dianna’s
face turned red. “That’s a little more information than I want to know,
Spencer, but hey, when you start talking, you really let go.”
    “As
I recall, you wanted conversation.”
    “Not
anymore.”
    “Tough.
I’m in a talking mood. And don’t act so damn innocent. I have little doubt
you’ve had plenty of men revolving through your life. You’re far from
virginal.”
    “I
never claimed I was a virgin, Spencer. There haven’t been men, but there was a
man, once, yes, one I loved and lived with for three years.”
    “Oh,
he left your ass high and dry, huh? I can understand that. What I’m surprised
about is it took him three years to decide to leave you.”
    Dianna
swallowed hard and twisted her hands. “He didn’t decide to leave me. He made a
choice. He stepped in front of me and took the bullet in the heart meant for
me.” She turned and left him standing there.
    Taylor
watched her walk away. Shit! Inside, he felt like a hideous monster. Anger and
frustration chewed at him. He always said the wrong thing. One of these days,
he’d learn to keep his mouth shut. But today wasn’t that day. “Where are you
going?”
    She
kept walking, a little unsteady, toward a stand of bushes. “If it’s okay with
you, I need a few minutes alone. Nature calls.”
    “Well,
nature will bite you on the ass if you aren’t careful. So, no, it’s not okay
with me for you to just take off. Get back here. I don’t want you wandering off
alone.”
    She
turned to face him, her face pale. “I have to pee.”
    “Yeah,
well, do it over there by that tree.”
    “I’m
not a dog. I can’t just hike a leg and let ‘er rip. Neither do I have a penis.”
    “Lucky
me. Over by the tree. Within sight. And make it fast.”
    “Why
do you always have to be contrary?”
    He
shrugged. “When you get finished, go lie down before you fall down. You’re
swaying like a sway-backed mule.”
    She
gasped. “Don’t order me around. I’m not one of your little bimbos you take
camping.”
    Taylor
grinned. “Who said I took women camping with me?”
    “You
did!”
    “No,
I said I fucked them. You wanna give it a whirl?”
    She
blinked. Her mouth worked like a fish gasping for air. “I’m going to lie down.
That is not an invitation, Spencer.”
    “Aw,
too bad.” He clutched his heart. “And I had such high hopes.”
    She
snorted and waved him away. “Go cut brush or something. Play on the freeway.
Play dodge the cars.”
    He
turned away, muttering.
    “Hey,
Spencer!”
    He
turned back. “What?”
    “You’re
right about one thing. Watch out for snakes. There are some deadly fellows
here.”
    “Yeah,
well, as far as I can tell, I’m looking at the deadliest one.”
    Dianna
swallowed hard and watched him walk away. “Right, Spencer, but you happen to be
the one with