Western Man
“She felt him studying her with a penetrating thoughtfulness and sent him a curious sidelong glance.
“I hear you’ve been seeing a lot of that oil man lately,” Ridge said.
“Oil man?” She frowned with an initial bewilderment, then her expression cleared. “You mean Andy Rivers,” she said, realizing suddenly whom he meant. “He’s a geologist who works for an oil company.”
The Piceance Basin of Colorado contained one of the largest concentrations of oil shale. According to Andy, they estimated there were over 500 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the shale, more than the provable reserves of crude oil in the OPEC countries. It defied imagination when one considered they were standing on top of it.
“Same difference,” Ridge shrugged at her answer and continued to study her with a kind of interested speculation. “Is it true it’s become a regular thing?”
“More or less. Between his work schedule and my horse show dates, we don’t see each other all that frequently,”
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