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"Let's eat lunch first at that café by the bus stop If you don'tto stay here for a "

He only to quickly picked up the single bag he had brought with hie in ood or bad one, but soh with it I turned back to Deshavi She walked around the back end of the horse her eyes in search of the source of her flirtatious interest She found o back around the horse, but I motioned for her to come and reluctantly she obeyed

She no doubt expected another sermon, which is why I think it was a surprise to her when all I said was, "You're going to eat lunch with us before we leave"

"Who's us?" She asked puzzled

"Me and the man, whom you've acted little better in front of, than a broodmare in estrus would behave with a stallion around"

Deshavi's face turned beet red and it was a relief to see that shame was an emotion that could still be evoked in her

"Tie your horse off and come"

She just stood there and for a entled my tone down some "Go tie your horse off Deshavi"

She turned and did as I said and then slipped through the fence to walk besideat me and then finally she stopped and so did I

"Why? If you disapprove ofto embarrass me?"

"No Deshavi, you knoouldn't do that, perhaps as a child but not now You're an adult and you make your own decisions, even as you have to live with the ive her the simple truth, "Because for once Deshavi you've actually picked out ayou enuine shock, as herher ain She caught up and I could still see that she was trying to figure out ht you would want me to be with someone of our own blood?"