“I keep people at a distance, I know,” he said. “I guess I do, too,” Mad offered, but it was easy to do that when you lived on so many acres that you could barely even see your neighbor. But she knew what he meant. If a person wanted her, it made her suspicious, not flattered. It was a part of herself that she hated, to think that she was so deficient that someone was scamming her if they said she was interesting.
