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“I’ Except that you have to tell Vivi Ann now Before so bad happens”

“What’s the point? She always gets what she wants” Winona felt that bitternessplace

“That’s poison, thinking like that We’re sisters”

Winona tried to iood advice, even chose the words she could use and turned them around in her head All she could come up as a perfect picture of herself as pathetic “No, thanks”

Aurora sighed “Well She obviously hasn’t said yes yet or ould have heard Maybe Vivi Ann knows she isn’t ready You kno romantic she is She wants to be swept away When it comes to love, she’ll either be in it from the start or out of it, and Luke hasn’t rocked her world”

Winona let herself hope It was a tiny flare of light, that hope, but it was better than the dark that preceded it “I pray you’re right”

“I’et up Travis bailed in theto help Vivi Ann clean the cabin”

“What if she shows off her ring?”

“You uess you’ll either crawl under the sheets or get the hell out of it”

“I’ll go change”

“I’d change more than your clothes, Win”

Ignoring the jibe—or was it advice?—Winona went up to her bedrooray UW sweatshirt

In no ti to the ranch

Inside the cabin, they found an absolute shambles, eeks’ worth of dirty dishes on every surface and a pile of the a stain from the hardwood floor Even in her oldest clothes, with her long hair tied in a haphazard ponytail, and no eous

“You’re here,” she said, giving theawatt smile of hers