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And I’d inherited it?

And the ranch! Christ, how could I have forgotten the ranch that was adjacent to the picture-perfect house? Acres and acres of fertile California land, dotted with sheep, chickens, and the occasional otten the horses? And the quaint old barn wherewait ato Usually by acowboy

Ame from my sleep A call that awakened inning? A journey across the land where a new life awaits? One with agulpa cowboy? Shit I could gulp a cowboy Especially if I was about to be starring in my very own romance novel But could I actually move across the country? I didn’t know a soul in California

Wait, strike that

I picked up the phone to call the only person I knew on the West Coast One who shared the same sense of adventure that I once did

It was only eleven o’clock in California Of course, who the hell knehere he hthe decision about waiting to call in the h school, Simon Parker

Chapter two

"Viv Franklin To what do I owe the pleasure?"

"Hi, Siured it wasn’t too late to call, since you’ve never been an in-bed-before-h lately--"

"Spare me the details of your love life, except to tell ht? You didn’t h school reunion last fall, I’d met the woman who’d finally tamed the man that is Simon Parker

"I am indeed She’s back at home in San Francisco Well, actually, home is now Sausalito"

"Back at home? Where are you now?"