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Ainsley and Thorn, she leaned over the fox-faced man. "That soldier there." Conspiratorially, she pointed toward the young man. "I think I've met him before, but I can't remember his name. What is it?"
"Shepherd," Maitland said. "Will Shepherd."
For a moment, Mariah didn't react.
And then it struck her. She swallowed her gasp of dismay. Her concerns about this young man who scowled so angrily at Thorn were not misplaced.
His name was Will. Short for William.
She had asked Ainsley if there was a Billy at the fort, but she hadn't asked the question correctly.
Billy was also short for William.
If the screenplay held any truth, that young man could be the one who'd challenge Thorn to a duel.
The one who would kill Thorn.

 
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