Cowboy's Secret Child. Sara Orwig

marriage, and I’m not ready to marry again. So back to my question—why haven’t you married and had kids of your own?”

      Like a lot of other people, she had secrets she didn’t care to share. Jeb Stuart’s question was personal, and she knew she could refuse to answer him or give him one of the two or three casual replies she had given on dates, but she saw no reason now to be anything except totally honest.

      “I can’t have children of my own,” she replied, looking him squarely in the eye, feeling an old familiar pain.