He hungered for anonymity and a new beginning with love, but his head and his heart told him that both were impossible. Sherryn Elvers saw both as not only possible but inevitable. "I've thought about Jimmy and the sparkle you put in his eyes in one afternoon, Ben," she told him. "I've seen the respect people have for you. They're good folks, and they don't respect you for your reputation or the power of your fists. If you would step back once and take a good look at yourself, what you'd see is an honest-to-god person, weak like we all are at times, but a man of honor and conscience. That's all that counts. "I've thought about me as well. I told myself I love you, and I've looked at you from a distance...as coldly calculating as I could...at the best and the worst in you. I've wondered if you might be that one special man I have been waiting for since Jimmy lost his father. I've thought about all of these things, and your leaving here is out of the question, because I have chosen you, and I have made you mine no matter what "
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