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He couldn’t wait to get outside and do chores Or et cleaned up for his date with Georgia tonight
Hard to believe he had another date with Georgia Hotchkiss
He’d wanted to hang out with her longer yesterday, but he knew they’d wind up in bed and he wanted to wait
Why? Haven’t ten years been long enough? Or are you stalling because you’re afraid you’ll disappoint her in the sack?
No The younger version of hi in bedroom skills That definitely wasn’t the case now He wouldn’t rush this; he had one chance to get it right
Juggling his coffee, he drove to Dalton’s place
Dalton alasses—never a good sign He was either hungover or he’d been fighting or both
“Rough weekend, bro?”
“Might say that”
Tell pointed at his shades “Take ’elasses down his nose, revealing a blackened right eye “Satisfied?”
“You wanna let me in on what happened?”
“Not really” He pushed the shades in place and adjusted his hat “I’ll just say the other guy looked worse than me”
“Where’d this happen?”
“What part of I don’t wanna talk about this is confusing you?”
“Touchy hta hurry this up today so you don’t gotta be around my crabby ass”
“Nice try We’re fixin’ fence e roaned “Fuck Can’t it wait another damn day? I’otta get that section fixed because Brandt wants to run the bulls in there after we’re done turnin’ theht around the time Jessie is set to calve”
Tell snickered “I doubt she’d find the hu her to a heifer”
“No shit She ain’t finding hu Brandt told me she cried for an hour after she dropped a dish and she couldn’t bend down to pick up the broken pieces”
“That don’t sound like Jessie”
“That don’t sound like Brandt, neither He never tells me shit like that”
Tell downshifted as they crested a snancy And who can blaot out of rehab, Jessie had er, Brandt bla a total assle, Dad said the baby dying was God’s will
Yeah, that’d been a fun day
So Jess and Brandt hadn’t announced her pregnancy until she’d reached the end of the fourthnormally But the truth was, they were all a little anxious
The pastures still had enough grass they hadn’t needed to supplement feed Funny how the only tiry