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“Don’t you want me?” she asked. Of course Wade Garrett wanted her. He’d wanted Pauline Mayfield ever since he’d convinced her to rent him a room in her house. But he wasn’t sure if he was ready to trust women again. Especially one who until recently seemed so intent on keeping their relationship platonic in order to avoid small-town gossip.Still, he couldn’t deny their attraction and, if Pauline was ready to take their relationship to the next level, he wouldn’t say no, even if it meant putting his heart on the line!

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd’s cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night… In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young or old, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy…