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“I'm sorry, Caulder, but I'm not ready for another relationship. I don't know if I ever will be ready.鈥� Saying this to him now hurt as much as a slug to her abdomen. But it had to be said.

鈥淭hen we don't have one. We're business partners first, and I'll respect your wishes. I won't stand in your way, and I won't pursue you. I'll pretend I don't want to kiss your lips.鈥� His eyes lingered on the aforementioned. 鈥淵ou being in the stands photographing or videotaping my every move will mean nothing to me.鈥� He laughed. 鈥淒ammit, I don鈥檛 believe that myself. It is what it is, Velia.”
― Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, Howdy, Ma'am

“Is it too much to ask the gods for a happy life together?鈥� Caulder McCutchen from Hey, Cowboy, Book #2”
― Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, Hey, Cowboy

“You don't have to call me ma'am," I told him, wrapping my arms around myself some more as I entered the dining room.

His eyebrows lifted, eyeing me carefully. "You are in a relationship with Maxwell Alexander Emerson, are you not?"

"I am."

"Well, it just so happens Mr. Emerson is my employer and as such, so are you, hence the title 'ma'am', just as I call Mr. Uhler 'sir.'"

"You know about that."

"I was not aware it was a secret, and if it were, the lot of you are very poor at keeping it." He snickered”
― Amelia LeFay, The Anatomy of Us

“I鈥檇 been called ma鈥檃m at least two dozen times in the past week, and despite learning the term was a southern courtesy used on any woman, it still set my teeth on edge. Unless you were geriatric, no one used 'ma鈥檃m' up north.”
― Heather Webber, Midnight at the Blackbird Caf茅