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It also looked like a party Out back, Cody had his huge, s blasted froreat and beer being good and people being crazy

Count ht as I hit the stairs for the deck

Cody actually handed me a beer after I shook his hand, despite the fact that it wasn’t even noon I immediately cracked open the can of Coors and tapped it to the one Cody orking on before I took a swig

“Sorry for all the trouble I brought down on you, Aaron I alot you killed”

The old cowboy grinned

“Many have tried, Mike My two brothers,Hell, even ure it out”

He pointed his beer toward the field beside the horse barn

“Now, go see your fa you, I hear”

I walked over sloatching s In the i, swooping and circling as if they wanted to join in

Beside the field, Mary Catherine and Sea at a picnic table Seaer to my lips as I stood behind Mary Catherine I looked down at her, her blond hair, the self-possessed way she carried herself If this was a drea to wake up

I leaned forward and put my hands over her eyes

“Guess who?” I said in her ear

She stood, squealing, and huggedback just as hard At that moment, I felt it leave us The animosity that had been between us for the last few months All hatchets were buried, all fouls erased Because we still had each other We still had everything that counted

Life and love and time

Without hesitating, we also started kissing When we broke it up, ere both crying We looked over at Sea up at us, flummoxed, speechless I leaned over and loudly kissed Seamus on the top of his bald head