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“Where do you want

“I’ as soon as I get her out” He appraised her “Where were you?”

“It doesn’t matter”

“You’re wearing a dress”

She shrugged “I wasn’t at home”

He frowned “Were you out?”

This was not the ti brother on her It wasn’t char when she’d just abandoned her date to help deliver a calf “If I wasn’t at home I was out Better put your hand up the cow, Bennett,” she said, feeling testy

Bennett did just that, checking to see that the coas dilated enough for hi a breech ani to have to pull the baby out, likely with the aid of a chain or a winch, but not too soon, which would injure the mother And not too quickly, which would injure them both

But if they went too slow, the baby coould end up coen supply If that happened it was likely to never recover

“Ready,” he said “I need chains”

She spotted the chains laying on the ground, picked the the first hint of the calf’s hooves Then he lashed the chain around theainst the fabric of his black T-shirt, flexing as he tugged hard

She had been a vet long enough that she was inured to things like this, frouy out in the midst of all of this was probably a little is ith Bennett

They’dlier and adolescent aardness And so, and his fa Her own home life was hard, and she’d been desperate for escape froes at each other

She never had him over She didn’t want to be at her house She never wanted him, or any other friend, to see the way her family lived